One Rule to Rule Them All Pragmatic Dave Thomas GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams Dave Thomas - Author of The Pragmatic Programmer @pragdave RESOURCES ABSTRACT As developers, we live under a constant barrage of helpful advice, often in the form of rules with cute names. We're told how to design, how to code, how to deploy, how to monitor: there are systems and rules for everything. How can we keep up? How can we know what's good advice, and what's bad? Over time I've come to realize that just about every good piece of advice is actually a special case of something both more general and simpler. So, let me introduce you to the “one rule to rule them all.“ [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:28 Back to the 1990s 03:57 Classic waterfall 06:14 Theorem proving 06:58 100% test coverage 08:17 “Correct code“ 12:05 Dave's postulate No. 1 13:50 Change 16:18 Manifesto for Agile Software Development 19:58 Agile is Dead 23:23 Easy to change 24:20 How? 32:41 Dave's postulate No. 2 35:07 Building intuition 37:37 Conscious & subconscious 43:31 Experience 46:37 Handwrite on paper 50:27 Make it easier to change 50:48 Outro Read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • Dave Thomas • Programming Elixir • Dave Thomas & Sam Ruby • Agile Web Development with Rails 7 • Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow • W. Timothy Gallwey • The Inner Game of Tennis • #Agility #AgileIsDead #TypeSystems #Intuition #Programming #PragmaticProgrammer #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #DaveThomas #PragmaticDave Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.