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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

The first field test units were delivered after approximately six months into development. Van Schooenderwoert 2006]. These folks had everything stacked against them—except their coach and her approach to software development. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Rooney 2006] experienced that problem, with regrettable results: We weren’t sure what our priorities were. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team. Test Driven Development. Test Driven Development.

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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. Another popular approach is the facilitator-coach , often called a Scrum Master , 3 who leads from the sidelines by facilitating conversations and resolving organizational roadblocks.

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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. The big ones get worse. “As

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

This group has published numerous books and articles on lean thinking, lean manufacturing, and lean product development, including The Toyota Product Development System (Morgan and Liker, 2006), and Lean Product and Process Development (Ward, 2007). Put the tests into a test harness for ongoing code verification.