Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey - Softcover

Writing code is the easy part of a software developer s work. With this practical book will help you explore the other 90% of the job, from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping to business analysis and designing for maintainability.Culled from advice in his "Programming Beyond Practices" newsletter, author and industry professional Greg Brown takes you through topics such as effective code reviews, quality regression testing, designing for reversability, monitoring at the code, infrastructure, business levels, rapid prototyping, communications skills, defining critical paths, dealing with technical debt, and more."

Gregory Brown has run the independently published Practicing Ruby journal since 2010, and is the original author of the popular Prawn PDF generation library.In his consulting projects, Gregory has worked with key stakeholders in companies of all sizes to identify core business problems that can be solved with as little code as possible.Gregory's relentless focus on the 90% of programming work that isn't just writing code is what lead him to begin working on Programming Beyond Practices.