Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup:

TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT)
Continuous integration
Automate your deployments
Collect statistics

The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but don't confuse tools with process. Whatever state your code or team is in, you can always start going faster. Or to borrow from a military context (John Boyd) "people-ideas-hardware, in that order."