Topic: Team Efficiency and Code Management
Summary: Discover a straightforward, actionable strategy to maintain code quality and efficiency within your tech team by ensuring that all valuable information is documented and accessible to all members.
As a software developer for almost 10 years and an entrepreneur for nearly seven, I've learned a thing or two about building a tech team and a company from scratch. My company, which I started during the fourth year of my developer journey, has always been a small, tight-knit, and efficient team primarily focused on technology.
If you've started your own company or are considering starting a tech business, your success will largely depend on your development team. And the effectiveness of your development team hinges on the quality and cleanliness of the codebase. That's why I firmly believe that keeping the codebase clean is of utmost importance for small, entrepreneurial companies and development teams.
I won't delve into high-level principles, design patterns, or famous development theories. Instead, I'll share a straightforward, actionable, and cost-effective strategy that anyone, even newcomers, can implement.
The simple method to keep your tech team agile and efficient is: Write down everything in your brain, and make sure your teammates do the same.
If you can write it down as valid code, do it. If you can't express it as valid code, use comments. In the rare case that you can't even write it down as comments, turn to online documents.
In summary, the principle is very straightforward: Don't keep any information solely in your brain—write it down somewhere easily accessible to all team members. This approach will help ensure that your tech team remains agile, efficient, and effective, allowing your startup to thrive and your dreams to become a reality.
So simple, right?
That's a simple method that I and my team used for years. I'm a firm believer that the most effective methods are often the simplest ones. While simplicity might not always be easy, it's definitely efficient.
