Jared Wooten

Technical Coach | Extreme Programmer

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Connecting to People in a Remote World

February 01, 2022 by Jared Wooten

In a technical coaching context, modeling effective communication is my primary tactic. I try to model asking more than telling, asking only one question, saying more with fewer words, keeping my camera on, and not apologizing when my dogs invade my camera (I instead introduce them). Teams also benefit from learning to explicitly integrate “play” time, doing small entertaining activities and games together.

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February 01, 2022 /Jared Wooten
communication, agileteam, games, remotework, pair programming, nonviolent communication
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Let's Call Them Microtests!

April 06, 2020 by Jared Wooten

Naming is one of the most difficult tasks of development. My last team debated names of things because communication is crucial, but it is a challenge. Naming a paradigm, pattern, principle, namespace, class, variable, or whatever is an attempt to communicate with another engineer about a broader set of related ideas using a condensed term. Computers don't care what you name things in your code; It all becomes binary once it's compiled anyway.

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April 06, 2020 /Jared Wooten
unit testing, microtests, communication, extreme programming, arrange act assert, TDD, test-driven development
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