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AoAD2 Chapter: Teamwork (Introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Cross-functional, self-organizing teams are the heart of any Agile organization. 1 [Beck et al.

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Five Metrics to Track the Performance of Your Quality Assurance Teams and the efficiency of your Quality Assurance strategy

Trigent

A product goes through different stages of a release cycle, from development and testing to deployment, use, and constant evolution. According to a PWC research report published in 2020, 1 in 3 customers is willing to leave a brand after one bad experience. Developing a sound Quality Assurance (QA) strategy.

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AoAD2 Practice: Energized Work

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Coaches, Whole Team. Pair Programming. Mob Programming. Second Edition cover.

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AoAD2 Practice: Slack

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Developers. First, only the team’s constraint needs slack. Second Edition cover.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Programming is demanding. Second Edition cover. Programmers.

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The Good and the Bad of.NET Framework Programming

Altexsoft

NET is a software development framework and ecosystem designed and supported by Microsoft to allow for easy desktop and web application engineering. The first release of.NET Framework in 2002 introduced C#, a language for writing managed code that had a design similar to C++. But that’s not all. NET languages that we discuss below.

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A Lumpy Christmas

The Daily WTF

NNOSE ran on a piece of NORAD surplus computer hardware and was programmed in a dialect of MUMPS nicknamed "Sugar LUMPS" or just "LUMPS" Merlin was the only one who knew how the system worked and what the system did, and Merlin was the only one who was ever supposed to touch it. It was its own kind of vacation…. …