To Be a Practice

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Principles are important, but principles alone are not enough. We also need ways of achieving principles in practical situations and that’s what practices are for.

I use strict criteria for defining a practice. In order for something to be a practice it must

When a practice fulfills these three conditions, then it can easily propagate among a team and its benefits compound. You can just do the practice and it automatically saves time and effort on an ongoing basis.

The nine practices in this book represent a core set of high-value practices that are often misunderstood and misapplied but hold the key to sustainable productivity. And all of them are huge time-savers. I’m not about giving developers more work to do. They’re already too busy as it is. The practices I advocate developers adopt save them time both in the short term and the long term. They help developers build focused, testable behaviors.

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