developer-psychology

How to teach someone that less is more?

I work in a shop where the mentality/culture does not have any sense of the concept of "less being more" (i.e. the less code you have to maintain, the more flexible you can be, and the faster you can fulfill customer requests). There's also a strong copy-and-paste mentality around here. The backend code base being used is written in ra...

Doing developers performance review (appraisals) by Development Leads

For developers team leads/management, What are the key discussion points when performing a developer's performance review? How will you measure how well a developer has performed? Which areas should one focus on? Which areas not to focus on? ...