learning-path.md

Learning Path

We do 2 week long study iterations. At the end of each iteration we discuss what we have studied in order to align, check if we understand and ask ourselves questions on how to improve our daily work.

Iteration 1

• Keep It DRY, Shy, and Tell the Other Guy - Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
• Integrated Tests Are A Scam - J.B. Rainsberger
• The Four Elements of Simple Design - J.B. Rainsberger

Iteration 2

• OOP Principles: Composition vs Inheritance - Dave Crabbe
• Iterative and Incremental Development - Robert Martin
• You Arent Gonna Need It - Ron Jeffries

Iteration 3

• Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) - Robert Martin
• 7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development - J.B. Rainsberger
• The Cycles of TDD - Robert Martin

Iteration 4

• Low Coupling, High Cohesion - Ivan Montiel
• Tennis Refactoring Kata - Emily Bache
• Keynote Italina Agile Day 2010 - Paolo Perrotta

Iteration 5

• Refactoring (chapter 2) - Martin Fowler
  • Defining Refactoring
  • Why should you refactor?
  • When should you refactor?
  • What do I tell my manager?
  • Problems with refactoring
  • Refactoring and design
  • Refactoring and performance
  • Where did refactoring come from?
• Gli schiacciatori NON parlano dell'alzata, la risolvono - Julio Velasco

Iteration 6

• Refactoring (chapter 3) Bad smells in code- Martin Fowler

Iteration 7

• Tennis Refactoring Kata - Emily Bache with Calisthenics rules
  1. One level of indentation per method
  2. Don’t use the ELSE keyword
  3. Wrap all primitives and Strings
  4. First class collections
  5. One dot per line
  6. Don’t abbreviate
  7. Keep all entities small (50 lines)
  8. No classes with more than two instance variables
  9. No getters/setters/properties

Iteration 8

• Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags) - Pete Hodgson

Iteration 9

• The Open-Close principle - Robert Martin
• The Single Responsibility (principle - Robert Martin

Iteration 10

• Accelerare lo sviluppo con il Simple Design - Matteo Vaccari

Iteration 11

• The OCP kata (Bowling Score) - Matteo Vaccari

Iteration 12

• Design Pattern: Template Method - Alexander Shvets
• Design Pattern: Strategy - Alexander Shvets
• Design Pattern: Decorator - Alexander Shvets

Iteration 13

• DIP in the Wild - Brett Schuchert

Iteration 14

• Birthday Greetings Kata

Iteration 15

• Onion Architecture - Matteo Di Tucci

Backlog

• Symptoms of Rotting Design - Robert Martin
• The Clean Architecture - Robert Martin