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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. Take small steps—test-driven development works well—and talk about your assumptions, short-term goals, general direction, and any relevant history of the feature or project. Test-Driven Development. Use test-driven development and take very small steps.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

It’s a joint look back at your development system for the purpose of learning and improving. As such, an effective analysis will involve the five stages of a retrospective: [Derby and Larsen 2006]. 3 The “appreciations” activity is based on [Derby and Larsen 2006] (pp. Close the retrospective.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Coffin 2006] describes an experience with two nearly identical teams: one that didn’t include users’ perspective and one that did. In particular, they need experience with test-driven development, refactoring, and evolutionary design. Help individual team members develop their careers.

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