Problem Solving – Table of Contents

• Introduction – PHPHants – 8 January 2020
  • Synopsis
  • So what is Problem Solving?
  • So what’s debugging?
  • Bug types
  • About Herb Miller
  • About this presentation – part one
  • About this presentation – part two
  • Are these your top 10?
• Steps
  • Step 1 – The Cast
  • Step 2 – Asker / Askee
  • Step 3 – Stupid Question Asker
  • Step 4 – The domain expert
  • Step 5 – Project Manager
  • Step 6 – The Process
  • Step 7 – Persist
  • Step 8 – Ask questions
  • Step 9 – Expect the unexpected
  • Step 10 – Need to know
  • Step 11 – New code?
  • Step 12 – Has it happened before?
  • Step 13 – What’s changed?
  • Step 14 – The right change?
  • Step 15 – The correct version?
  • Step 16 – Requirements vs specs
  • Step 17 – Askee’s questions
  • Step 18 – Research
  • Step 19 – Simplify
  • Step 20 – Reproduce
  • Step 21 – SQA: Restate problem
  • Step 22 – Timing?
  • Step 23 – Environment?
  • Step 24 – Authority
  • Step 25 – Expert opinion
  • Step 26 – Evidence
  • Step 27 – Experience
  • Step 28 – Stop and think
  • Step 29 – Problem size
  • Step 30 – Severity & Priority
  • Step 31 – And finally
  • Step 32 – Post Scriptum