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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Cargo Cult Agile. Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. To avoid these sorts of delays and errors, Agile teams are cross-functional whole teams.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Agile makes a challenging demand of its programmers: every week or two, programmers should finish four to ten customer-centric stories. Those recurring patterns embody your application architecture. Programmers.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

SpaceX was founded in 2002 with the goal of making access to space affordable by designing and launching low cost orbital rockets. From rigid and risk-adverse to agile, experimental, and adaptable. Then in the early 2000’s, agile and lean ideas began making inroads into the way software was designed, created, and maintained.