Your Mindset is More Important

It’s amazing how prone we can be to superficial measures of maturity. Sometimes we get it in our head—though we wouldn’t ever say it out loud—that using things like TDD, BDD, IoC, ORM, etc. will automatically lead us to software quality nirvana. It doesn’t.

Kyle Baley has a great article reminding me that, ultimately, what makes a software team great is not the tools or practices that they use, but their mindset. It is only when developers care deeply about keeping the codebase clean and maintainable and producing quality results that these tools and practices show their merit. In order to build truly great software we need to do more than use great tools and say we follow great practices; we need to cultivate and encourage a culture of quality.

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