5.13. Code Smarter

Why include a section on effective coding practice in a book on project planning? Remember that this is a developer-centric project-planning book. Most project planning books do not sufficiently emphasize the role of sound development practice in the holistic solution to project planning problems. They focus on the mind, but pay insufficient attention to the effect of the body on mental health.

You can succeed in avoiding the self-defeating pitfalls of overplanning and overmanagement only if you succeed at producing quality, maintainable code. Even though this is not a book on coding practices, the manager intending to implement better planning practices must ensure that development is producing the requisite maintainable code. ...

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