Chapter 6. Setting Up a Development Workflow

A few years ago, I joined a team to work on a web development project. On the first day, I got the following e-mail from the CTO:

Hi Juampy!

Welcome to the team. Here is how you can start working:

Clone the repository [email protected]:some-company/some-project.git

Download the database from http://intranet.some-company.com/some-project/db.sql.tar.gz

Set up your local environment and then open http://jira.some-company.com to start working on tickets.

Thanks and good luck!

I hope that you can figure out how I felt when I read this e-mail. If you can't, let me tell you that the project was a chaos, there was no effort to keep a certain level of quality; there were bugs everywhere and it took me two days to reach the project's homepage in my environment. This is definitely not a good welcome for a new developer. Here is an alternative e-mail that I got in a different team:

Hi Juampy!

Welcome to the project, I have just...