You are a professional. You must act like it, you must be committed, and you must understand and embrace your responsibilities.

A coding dojo is a safe place to deliberately practice and develop your coding skills, and perhaps to develop your coding instincts.

Saying yes to everything is to invite overload and dramatically increase the risk of getting nothing done.

Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.

Time pressure is actually the result of a lack of professionalism.

Cleaning code does NOT take time. Not cleaning code does take time.

You should never plan on working overtime. It should be an unusual occurrence.

If you find an odorous clump of rotting code, clean it.

True professionals do not allow their time lines to be violated.

The point of estimates is to give the team and the stakeholders continuous insight into the state of the project.

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers