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Code Craft
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Code Craft

by Pete Goodliffe
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
610 pages
22h 58m
English
No Starch Press
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In a Nutshell

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

Programmers only really care about writing good code, so does all this matter? Yes: The health and structure of our software teams has a direct affect on the health and structure of our code. They are inextricably linked. Software is written by humans. Just as the software components have to fit together, communicate well, and form a cohesive structure, so must the programmers building it.

Good teamwork comes from more than a well-defined process or a fixed structure. Good teamwork stems from good individuals. “The whole is greater than the sum of its ...

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