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    John> Guys, I run a development shop in Greensboro, NC.  For years
    John> before I came, the shop was run in a very chaotic way...no
    John> policies or procedures...just code and fix.

[...]

Granted the guy's a former M$ employee (worked on Excel, I believe,
which is one of M$' two decent products (the other being the original
Natural keyboard, but then again I think they outsourced that so it
may not count :)), but check out "The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better
Code" for a pretty good bare minimum checklist:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html";>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html</a>


And the 'Joel On Software' blog in general:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/";>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/</a>

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