Next Boston SC meeting - Practicing the code transition

[zd...@yahoo.com]

Hi All,

The next Boston SC meeting is April 1st and we'll be practicing the code transition!

Leaving a job? Acquiring a codebase from someone? If so than you're involved in a code transition. They can go great or go poorly. In this session we're going to practice & hopefully improve at the code transition.

There will be two practice sessions and two codebases to learn. We've secured two volunteers to present code which they'll practice transitioning & the rest of us will practice being the recipients.

RSVP at: http://gathers.us/events/april-2013-boston-software-craftsmanship-meeting

Looking forward to it.

-Zach

Boston SC - Improvement through practice 

For more information see: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/boston-software-craftsmanship

[Alastair Smith]

This sounds like a really interesting session! Will you be making available the resources from the session afterwards, i.e. introductory slides, retrospective notes, etc.?

Alastair

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:31:05 -0700
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[Zach Shaw]

Sure I can put some notes together & some details on how we ran the session.

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[zd...@yahoo.com]

Hi Alastair,

The session went really well!

We learned more about what it meant to give a good code presentation than what it meant to be a good audience member (This is primarily because our presentations were too short for much audience participation).

Here are some of the learnings for people practicing the code transition:

• Make an agenda. Give the audience a picture of where you're going to take them, how long those pieces should take, and what they should expect to know at the end
• Follow an example end to end
• Give an example use case and show it before diving into how the source works
• Tell the new maintainer what they might expect in their new role
• Give high level tour of major pieces
• Talk about what's stable vs what's changing
• Walk through a debugging of the software
• Talk about what the users are looking for / what's the end users perspective
• Talk about what kind of feature requests are coming in
• Don't stop talking!

If you want to run the exercise yourself smaller codebases are better!

-Zach

On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:30:05 PM UTC-4, Alastair Smith wrote:

This sounds like a really interesting session! Will you be making available the resources from the session afterwards, i.e. introductory slides, retrospective notes, etc.?

Alastair

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Founder, Cambridge Software Craftsmanship Community

http://www.camswcraft.org.uk/

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:31:05 -0700
From: zd...@yahoo.com
To: software_cr...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [SC] Next Boston SC meeting - Practicing the code transition

Hi All,

The next Boston SC meeting is April 1st and we'll be practicing the code transition!

Leaving a job? Acquiring a codebase from someone? If so than you're involved in a code transition. They can go great or go poorly. In this session we're going to practice & hopefully improve at the code transition.

There will be two practice sessions and two codebases to learn. We've secured two volunteers to present code which they'll practice transitioning & the rest of us will practice being the recipients.

RSVP at: http://gathers.us/events/april-2013-boston-software-craftsmanship-meeting

Looking forward to it.

-Zach

Boston SC - Improvement through practice 

For more information see: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/boston-software-craftsmanship

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[Alastair Smith]

Thanks Zach, this is some really useful advice; I've passed it on to our guys who do inductions for new starters as it looks like we'll be able to improve our process a fair bit based on this information.

Alastair

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:28:55 -0700
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