How do you promote the use of common components in your organization?

Question

If your company or project focuses (or at least appreciates) the development of code and components that can be reused and shared between projects, what is “social engineering” that you need to do to make code reuse easier?

In my experience, code or components that are simply declared “reusable” will not be reused unless this code has someone who protects or evangelizes it. Otherwise, people simply don’t know about it.

How confident are you that your organization has common components or reusable code?

Answer 1

The thought comes to mind:

• Make them very well documented and easy to understand. Thus, no one will refuse to use them, because it is too confusing.
• Make them very useful and make sure they care about problems that are so annoying that people would have to go crazy so as not to use them.

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Answer 6

In a gradient school class a few years ago, I did a case study in a web repository where programmers could contribute their code for reuse. This was not for my workplace, but for a laboratory with thousands of scientists and engineers, where there were no other centralized means for sharing.