
Our promise once you successfully implement Know When to Stop:
- you will finish code reviews more quickly
- you will be less impacted by interruptions
- you will complete stories more quickly
- you will establish trust with your product owner that you are refactoring the right amount
- you will find it safer and easier to work with code you do not understand
- you will find yourself struggling less to keep everything in mind
What Changes
Those results come from changing these key behaviors.
Shift: Better and No Worse
Commit frequently to prevent infinite refactoring.
Shift: Choose Where to Look
Use the story to guide which refactorings to do.
Shift: The One-Line Story
Perform refactorings so that stories can be completed easily.
Shift: Full Insight Loop
Integrate all of these shifts into one repeatable model.
This Builds on Other Habits
Know When to Stop is the final part of the Insight Loop. Complete those Habits first!
Habit: Start Refactoring Safely
Organization ROI: Code changes become cheaper and less bug-prone. Improves intra-team learning. Engineer ROI: Code reviews are much easier. Gaining permission to refactor is easier. Make fewer mistakes.
Habit: Naming as a Process
Organization ROI: Reduces cost and bugs for any story that touches existing code. Engineer ROI: Trust your names. Finish stories faster. Reduce impact of interruptions.
Habit: Know When to Stop
Organization ROI: Trust devs to do just the right amount of refactoring in each story. Minimize cost of each story. Engineer ROI: Be trusted to decide when to refactor. Know when to stop.
How to Change
Follow our map of specific shifts, each with clear supporting content
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