Every developer has been there--late at night, deadline looming, piling hacks on top of hacks to get a little closer to being finished, there are no tests, edge cases are totally forgotten. Many of us think these situations lead to the worst code we could possibly write. Under such conditions, it is difficult to write robust, well architected code--true--but this is not the only situation that leads to that end. Software development is a complex, creative process that can easily get out of hand. This is because one large factor is often forgotten about--the human factor. Avoiding writing the worst code ultimately comes down to how the people writing, spec'ing, testing, validating, and tracking the code interact.

1. The Worst Code
@MicheleTitolo

3. How To Create
Software

4. How Not To Create
Software

7. ❤Devs

9. Soft
Skills

10. People

13. Work Groups and Teams
in Organizations
School of Industrial and Labor Relations,
Cornell University

14. Teams

16. GOAL

17. • coordination
• collaboration
• communication
Team effectiveness

18. coordination: activities required
to manage interdependencies with the
team workflow

19. cooperation: the willful
contribution of personal efforts to the
completion of interdependent jobs

20. communication: a means for
enabling the more primary processes
of coordination and cooperation

23. The New Science of
Building Great Teams
Harvard Business Review
MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory

24. Effective
Communication

28. Code Smells

29. Organizational Smells

30. team-within-a-team

34. I HAVE NO IDEA
WHAT I AM DOING

35. central command

38. single points of
failure are bad

40. isolation

43. 😖

45. unreachable goal

46. GOAL

47. GOAL

50. black sheep

55. Anti Patterns

56. Patterns

57. Processes and Attributes
of Highly Effective Teams
Graduate Programs in Personnel and
Organizational Psychology,
University of Waterloo

58. Thanks
@MicheleTitolo

59. References
Balsom, M., Barras, R., Michela, J., & Zdaniuk, A (2009). Processes
and Attributes of Highly Effective Teams. Retrieved 6/10/2015
from https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/sites/ca.psychology/files/
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Pentland, A (2012). The New Science of Building Great Teams.
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hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams
Eckstein, J (2010). Agile Software Development with Distributed
Teams. Dorset House.

60. Photo Credits
• https://freepik.com
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