Re: Suggestion, advice on TDD adoption

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Russell Gold [email protected]
[testdrivendevelopment] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Apr 6, 2016, at 4:57 PM, Keith Ray [email protected]
> [testdrivendevelopment] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> It really really helps to have a coach working with your team and its code.
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> This is really a key. Without a coach, you are going to wind up trying
> things, not understanding why they don’t work, and largely reinventing a
> lot of practices. A coach can save you an incredible lot of time. You can
> get some of it from books such as Robert Martin’s Clean Code
> <http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clean-code-robert-c-martin/1101628669> (and
> other books in the series), but a good coach is still much better.
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While I don’t disagree with this, the kind of coaching being described is
expensive and people who can do it well are rare. It is very similar to
hiring a senior developer—the one you want you cannot afford and the one
you can afford you don’t want.

You CAN do it without a coach. You can potentially avoid a number of
pitfalls and delays with a good coach. It is a business decision whether
the price of the coach is worth the reduction in risk.