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Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
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Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

by Dr. James Stanier
May 2020
Beginner to intermediate
396 pages
10h 22m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Tools to Solve Common Problems

The final section of this chapter is to introduce you to some additional housekeeping techniques that can make good of common problems and produce documentation that you can review with time. Let’s look at them in turn.

Why Is This Code Like This?

We’ve all been there, staring at code that’s been designed in an esoteric manner. Maybe it’s been your own code and you can’t remember why it wasn’t written differently. To prevent problems like this from happening in the future, you can use an Architecture Decision Record (ADR).[13]

As you progress on your own projects and reach a decision point—a design choice, whether that be stylistic, framework-related, or a choice on how to build some infrastructure—you can capture ...

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