As a member of Vets Who Code...

Has responsibilities to the community –learn, mentor, coach, and lead. Knows the SOPs. Follows them. Fixes them if it is broken. If they find better SOPa, they copy it. If somebody could use our SOPs, give it to them. Leads by example. Models the behaviors we desire both interpersonally and technically. Strives to understand how their work fits into a broader context and ensures the outcome.

To increase overall efficiency for troops, mentors, and the whole team in general. Reduce the number of mistakes and avoid common pitfalls. Strive to be a better technologist and learn from other people's shared experience.

If you do nothing else follow the Engineering Fundamentals Checklist! It's here to help follow the Engineering Fundamentals.

A breakdown of sections according to the structure of an Agile sprint.

Keep the code quality bar high. Value quality and precision over ‘getting things done’. Work diligently on the one important thing. As a distributed team take time to share context via wiki, teams and backlog items. Make the simple thing work now. Build fewer features today, but ensure they work amazingly. Then add more features tomorrow. Avoid adding scope to a backlog item, instead add a new backlog item. Our goal is to ship incremental customer value. Keep backlog item details up to date to communicate the state of things with the rest of the team. Report product issues found and provide clear and repeatable engineering feedback! We all own our code and each one of us has an obligation to make all parts of the solution great.

Engineering Fundamentals Checklist Structure of a Sprint

Accessibility Agile Development Automated Testing Code Reviews Continuous Delivery (CD) Continuous Integration (CI) Design Developer Experience Documentation Engineering Feedback Observability Security Privacy Source Control Reliability

Machine Learning Fundamentals User-Interface Engineering Product Management Data Engineering