Automate high-friction, unpredictable tasks in your environment to regain sanity and achieve a rapid, sustainable pace.
by Chad Myers
January 19, 2009
very environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and add instability to the processes. We usually dedicate only half our brain power—and never enough time—to deal with them, which only compounds the problem. But what if you could automate the most painful tasks and gain a huge boost in productivity and speed of delivery?
Anyone who has worked on a large project, especially one with multiple developers, knows the pain of dealing with code change conflicts, the "works on my machine!" syndrome, "magic" builds, and other process and procedure anti-patterns. Developers hate having to deal with these things, nonetheless, we always get stuck having to do them. In this article, I'll walk you step-by-step through some simple changes you can make to your environment to eliminate many of the non-code related headaches. By producing reliable, quality builds every time and easing the pain of deployment to multiple environments you'll be able to get back to doing what you really love: Coding!
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very environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and add instability to the processes. We usually dedicate only half our brain power—and never enough time—to deal with them, which only compounds the problem. But what if you could automate the most painful tasks and gain a huge boost in productivity and speed of delivery?
