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Guidance on writing "good" server side java
https://www.gitbook.com/book/ncrcoe/java-for-small-teams
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For small teams? #8

Closed magJ closed 8 years ago

magJ commented 8 years ago

Hi, love the book.

However I am wondering what sections of advice in particular only apply to "small" teams? Reading through the book I haven’t really noticed anything in particular that would be a bad idea or wouldn’t apply to a large team. If anything I think many of the items discussed become more important the larger the team size. I think the books name might dissuade readers from large teams from approaching it, while they could still stand to gain quite a lot from reading it.

hcoles commented 8 years ago

If you have a large organisation where developers have been organised into small teams then the advice should all apply.

If you have a large organisation where things have been split by job function or some other scheme that generates large teams trying to work on the same code then I think a lot of the advice will apply. But not all of it.

I've not seen large teams like this working well anywhere, but I think you'd have more success with a more conservative and prescriptive set of guidelines. Basically the you'd need to cater for a lower common denominator.

magJ commented 8 years ago

Thanks.