In this episode, our guest Ryan Findley discusses doing things the Rails Way™ versus following other patterns, the case against rewriting software (and how you might anyway), the case against story points (and why you might want to use them anyway), how to measure developer productivity without triggering the wrong behavior, and bonsai gardening as it relates to software stewardship.

Guests:

• Ryan Findley
  • Neomind Labs

Links:

• Prepare to tack: Steering Rails apps out of technical debt by Robby Russell at Rails World 2024
• Strangler Fig by Martin Fowler
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I by Joel Spolsky
• Microsoft Developer Experience Lab
• Understand and Optimize Developer Productivity with the SPACE Framework by Hillary Nussbaum @ CodeClimate
• In Praise of Small Pull Requests by Elliotte Rusty Harold @ Google Testing Blog
• Story Points Revisited by Ron Jeffries
• Code and the Coding Coders Who Code It by Drew Bragg
   

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