In this episode, Amy and James talk about their experiences on actual development teams and the different processes and workflows that work best.

Sponsors

Vercel

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

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ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

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DatoCMS

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

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Show Notes

0:00 Introduction
2:58 Jobs on a Development Team
4:58 What is agile?
7:09 Sprints
8:32 Deadlines and Milestones
10:19 Sponsor: Vercel
11:25 Writing Stories
15:23 Types of Stories
21:26 Version Control and Git within a Team
- Episode 34 - Getting git
- Using Git with a Team on YouTube
22:55 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
- Everything Svelte
26:41 Code Reviews
- Tweet from James / Compressed.fm Codebase
28:27 Sponsor: DatoCMS
29:21 Prioritizing and Pointing Stories
34:47 Who writes the stories?
36:21 Velocity
38:26 Pair Programming
- Tuple
- LiveShare through VS Code
45:08 Meetings
47:46 How Design Fits into the Process
49:12 Sponsor: ZEAL
50:05 Grab Bag Questions
53:10 Amy's Pick: Rainbow Pirates
53:27 Amy's Plug: Everything Svelte
53:50 James's Pick: Kreg Pocket Hole Jig Pro 720
55:53 James's Plug: James Q Quick on YouTube