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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

DevOps and Agile Methodology: Lessons Learned [PRO3964]. Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved.

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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. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. 1 [Beck et al.

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Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When a product team starts work on a product, it’s important that they understand the vision. Over the process of a few hours these activities get the Developers and Customers to a common understanding of what problem they’re attempting to solve. Too often the answer is, “ To be Agile ”. Who is involved. Characteristics.

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AoAD2 Practice: Task Planning

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. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Whole Team.

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Which Companies Use OKR? Take A Look At These Successful Companies

Luis Goncalves

From a team of 30 people to now a giant tech corporation with over 70,000 employees, Google is one of the hallmarks of OKR as an organisational goal-setting methodology. The company used to adopt the “rank and yank” system wherein managers had to identify their least productive team members through a yearly evaluation. Take The Test.

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AoAD2 Practice: Management

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. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Management.

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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. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Programmers.