Decreasing Team Performance
Explore the effects of bad code on team performance, including wasted time, increased technical debt, and lowered morale. Understand how poor code quality frustrates developers, impedes progress, and harms project outcomes. This lesson highlights why managing code quality is essential to maintain productivity and team satisfaction.
Bad code and team performance
A good way to look at bad code is code lacking the technical practices that help other developers understand what it is doing. When we’re coding solo, it doesn’t matter so much. Bad code will just slow you down and feel a little demoralizing at times. It does not affect anybody else. However, most professionals code in development teams, which is a whole different game. Bad code really slows a team down. The following two studies are interesting as far as this is concerned:
Technical Debt Cripples Software Developer Productivity: A longitudinal study on developers’ daily software development work
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