Sheila Eckert

There’s an old trick programmers use called rubber duck debugging . You keep a rubber duck on your desk. When you’re stuck, you explain your code to the duck. Out loud. Somewhere in the middle of saying, “And then it does this because…” you hear it. Oh. That’s where it breaks. Explaining forces clarity. And this doesn’t just work for code. It works for anything needing clarity: What does “done” actually mean for this story? How should we break this feature down? What problem are we really...

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