Tool #16: Expertise
○ Share Expertise
■ Promote mentorship and pair programming
■ Create communities of expertise
● Identify the technical and domain specific competencies that are critical to an
organization's success
● Within these communities create forums for knowledge sharing; monthly
meetings, newsletters, guest speakers, etc.
○ Enforce Standards
■ Naming standards, coding standards, language standards, check
in/out standards, build standards
■ Develop standards and practice them
■ Lack of standards leads to sloppy work
■ Standards develop through experimentation and knowledge
sharing