What role does tooling play and in particular JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA?
Tooling is very important. For many people it is still a big surprise that the Agile Manifesto states exactly that. It is essential to choose the tool that best fits your requirements and your process. One concrete aspect of working the agile way is to set up and run productive environments. Especially those tools are of big interests that accelerate your work flow, improve collaboration, and help sharing information. Talking about IDEs in particular, it is the major difference between a plain ASCII editor and a smart IDE. The wise IDE anticipates your intentions and is doing much more than just enabling editing text files. IntelliJ IDEA often acts as a hidden, magic guy who already knows what you want to achieve, and helps you to do so. Another important aspect is barrier-free development, integrating languages and bridging different project phases. For instance, it should not matter, whether you are working on a Java file, or any other artifact type. IntelliJ IDEA is excellent in thi
