- Organizational Standards and Conventions
- Putting the "Engineering" in Software Engineering
- Working with Logging and Tracing
- Project and Packaging File Structure
- Unit Testing Requirements
- Code Completion and Review Process Requirements
- Communicating the Vision the Wiki Way
- Conclusion
- Links to developerWorks Articles
- Reference
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Communicating the Vision the Wiki Way
Coming up with a reasonable way to socialize, communicate, educate, maintain, and enforce the standards you define within your organization is not usually a problem for small teams. However, within the context of a large organization these tasks can be difficult. Socializing the message to development teams is just the first step. The next part of the process is project enforcement and incorporating a feedback loop to incorporate improvements and additions.
One way to accomplish all these goals are through wikis. They are becoming increasingly popular to accomplish the goal of creating a community around standards. This approach enables you to publish and then maintain standards in a readily consumable manner. PortalPatterns.org (see Figure 2.6) is publicly available and can be used as an example site.
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Figure 2.6 PortalPatterns.org
This site’s goal is to build community and agreement on standards as well as provide examples for organizations looking to build their own set of standards.