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Understand The Memory-Factor — A Quick Workshop To Faster Development.
As a little boy, I went to an idyllic yellow wooden elementary school. The school had its kitchen, where Martta cooked lunch for us, and only a handful of students attended each class. No worries about the covid back then.
We started learning our first foreign language during the third grade. English classes began with basic vocabulary, and we all gave ourselves English names.
My name was Andy, while my friend Aki wanted to be known as Jake. He was a big fan of the TV series “Jake and the Fatman.”
When you learn new languages, you quickly reach a point when you start practicing small conversations with friends in the class. The first conversations between Jake and me went something like:
Hi. My name is Andy.
Hi Andy. I’m Jake.
You can learn a lot from these dialogues, and you also get fast feedback from a friend.
But what if you took that exercise to the context of modern software projects?
If you were a coder, here’s what would happen.
First, you make a change to the software and commit code to version control. Three weeks later, when the next patch goes live, someone finds a bug. The bug report returns to your desk a…
