073: Driven By Need, Guided By Example with Dan North




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Episode Sponsored By:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1357" src="http://www.greaterthancode.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Oreilly-1024x223.png" alt="" width="358" height="78"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support for the Greater Than Code podcast comes from O’Reilly Fluent and Velocity conferences, coming to San Jose, California, June 11-14. From ops to apps, Velocity + Fluent tears down silos, enabling and fostering the kind of cross-department collaboration essential to driving innovation and speeding product delivery. Best Price ends this Friday, March 30–save up to $839 using code GTC20. Learn more at </span><a href="http://oreil.ly/2o07Ufw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://oreil.ly/2o07Ufw</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <hr> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jameybash"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamey Hampton</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">|</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/tastapod"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dan North</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><a href="https://dannorth.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">dannorth.net</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">Support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>01:41</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Dan’s Superpower: Optimization</span></p> <p><b>03:26 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Are “Improve” and “Optimize” the same thing?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kaizen</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikaku"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kaikaku</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_accounting"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cost Accounting</span></a></p> <p><b>17:20 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– How is cost accounting affected by demographics and privilege?</span></p> <p><b>33:34 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Team Alignment, Collectiveness, and Camaraderie </span></p> <p><b>37:42 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Behavior-Driven Development</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (BDD) vs </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Test-Driven Development</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (TDD)</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Write the executable specifications to guide development.<br> Then, delete most of them to optimize for documentation.<br> Don’t pretend that the code is tested; that’s quite different.</p> <p>from <a href="https://twitter.com/tastapod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tastapod</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@greaterthancode</a></p> </blockquote>