Principles

Recent Principles

• When you know you aren’t aligned, resolve early.

  Act on unalignment rapidly to ensure happy teams

  • medium
  • leadership
  • practices
  • team

  Adam Craven

• Understand a problem individually, then share it.

  Capture your understandings separately to the team and then come together to align

  • team
  • process
  • medium
  • comprehension
  • remote-work

  Adam Craven & russmiles

• Documentation should be close to the code

  Documentation, in all forms, should be as close as it can be to the code.

  • practices
  • code
  • documentation

  Adam Craven

• Don't add unneeded context

  Don't add the class/object names to properties

  • variables
  • rule
  • code
  • clean code
  • code review

• Use default arguments instead of short circuiting or conditionals

  • variables
  • rule
  • code
  • clean code
  • code review

• Avoid double negative logic

  Conditional logic should avoid double negatives.

  • logic
  • code
  • practices

• Use searchable names

  • variables
  • rule
  • code
  • code review
  • clean code

• Use meaningful and pronounceable variable names

  • variables
  • code
  • code review
  • team
  • clean code

• Use the same vocabulary for the same type of variable

  • variables
  • rule
  • code
  • code review
  • clean code

• Function arguments, ideally use 2 or fewer

  • rule
  • code
  • code review
  • functions
  • javascript
  • clean code