5 Best Practices to be an Awesome Agile Software Developer

 

Agile at the start was introduced for software developers, by seeing its benefits other industries started to use its principles and practices and obtained immense benefits from them. But in software development agile is not all about only its principles and practices but also must consider improving its coding practices and architectural standards. Every organization asks for successful releasing software that impacts the user, addresses technical dept., and reliably deploys products. Along with this, the next main challenge for organizations is finding solutions for regular deployment enhancement and upgrades to the latest technology or requirements.

Agile has provided an answer to the entire organization's query with added benefits that any software development organization can only imagine. The agile goal at basic is to develop software that can meet the requirements of customers in time. With power-packed agile methods and principle when developers use coding tips for software development they become aware of their true role and provides high-quality products and value for end users.

Let’s see the tips that can help developers to be an awesome software developer who follows agile practices and principles commonly and still be one of their own.

Coding Standards

We have seen chefs even though make any common dish have their unique style and taste in it. Every chef has its uniqueness, similarly, every programmer has their style and uniqueness which can be seen in their work. But while working in a team we have to be a part of the team. It doesn’t look good or give any benefits if the team is moving in one way and a single developer is going on its own. When working in a team always move forwards with a team creating a group's style of its own instead of fighting or arguing over whose style is best.

It is advised to create coding standards and guidelines to be followed by the team while working which every developer accepts to adhere to while working.

1.     Concentrate on Readability

There are many ways for formatting. Many times teams go with a single formatting way to make it easy to read code. Sometimes teams are not satisfied with the single formatting creating chaos in a team and hard to convince. But if required you can select some formatting approaches with the team's concern and apply them to the project even if it will look somewhat ugly but it was still readable and that is what matters the most. In the end coding standards matter the most compared to formatting.

2.     Strong Connection for Stronger Products

Obtaining better code and less trash requires teamwork as today every software development is done in a team and not individually. When team members have team spirit, better connection, and trust a benefit of code quality and developers, as well as customer satisfaction, is the result obtained. Team power is the most important aspect of every developer's working process in today’s agile working.

3.     Use Third Party Tools

To complete a task in time with quality and speed up the code review requires automation so developers can use the help of third-party tools to automate some of the processes. They also help developers with feedback on review accuracy, errors, and coding style which helps developers to improve further. There are various tools available with accurate, easy, and quicker results for helping the developer in code writing. Such AI help quickens developers in their work and makes them focus on the main task ignoring the other irrelevant work that slows them down.

4.     Backup Code Regularly

It is always beneficial to be ready with backup for any work done. Any situation may arise at any time, we can’t always be sure things will go as planned regularly. So it is wise to take back-up of written code on daily basis for our safety of work. This helps in accidental cases with software or computers and also helps keep track of changes done by respective persons avoiding the blame game. This backup habit also helps developers if they want to undo the made changes after some time of review.

5.     Team Effectiveness

An agile team has always been important, as well as continuous improvement and learning. Agile teams are self-organized but a developer who maintains their self-organization and still is self-motivated to improve and continue to learn will always be a step ahead of others. As they have understood truly understand and adopted the agile mindset of self-improvement. Developer must always think over the feedback he/she got and if feels it is valuable must utilize it in their behavior.

With these five effective tips followed any developer can be always a part of the team but still will be able to mark his difference in a positive way making other team members look up to them.

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