“it’s your job to defend the code”

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Archive for September 20th, 2008

“it’s your job to defend the code”

September 20th, 2008 by Jeanne Boyarsky

As I read “Clean Code” by Robert C Martin, I was particular drawn to the passage about why unrealistic commitments should not be an excuse for writing bad code.  He points out that while it is a manager’s job to “defend the schedule and requirements”, it is a developer’s “job to defend the code with [...]