Yesterday I attended a meeting with a member of a clients configuration management team. Eventually the topic of “what do you want to call your source repository” came up and we all looked at each other and blinked.
Eventually a neuron in my brain triggered and I realised that this was an opportunity to pick a code name! Several good options were put on the table but for some reason the development team leader baulked at them and opted for something mundane and boring (
).
I can never understand why people choose grey names for projects, its their opportunity to put some of their personality into the project, but more importantly a good code name serves several useful purposes. A good code name:
- is a short hand way to refering to the system.
- is great for starting elevator pitches to executive management.
- is a way of avoiding analysis paralysis on namespace naming.
If I have convinced you to create a code-name for your project, here are a few rules that I would stick to for .NET projects:
- Avoid acronyms, they look like crap in namespaces.
- Prefer a single word codename, two word tops.
- Make it easy to search and replace in code.
- Place names, people names and funny words make great code names.
Do you have a code name for your project? If not, make one up and just start refering to the project as that – see how quickly your co-workers catch on.
Mitch,
I had a similar experience in one of the companies I worked with few years ago. This organization was embarking on a major project, and the management could not decide a name for the project. After many meetings and polls it was smartly decided to call it “Project Rose”
Of course inspired by this
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.”
Funny you mentioned this, we had a project naming meeting earlier in the week. The name, Draper… (After Jon Draper)
What about sub projects, or code ports to other devices? Say Desktop app to Pocket PC? Should the name stay the same?
Hi Kieran,
The project name is the name for a piece of effort, not just a piece of software. Microsoft changes their code name from version to version so i guess there would be no problem changing it for a platform change.
Then again - there are no hard rules.
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