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Agile Performance Chains, Metrics, & Continuous Improvement

Accenture

When you mention metrics-driven coaching to an agile coach, you will often get an initial reaction that “Metrics are evil.” Performance Chains in an Agile World. In the agile world, we have developed an understanding of the relationship between behavior and outputs. Figure 2 – Agile Performance Chain.

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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. Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Programmers.

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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

Increasing test coverage and earlier detection of defects by creating automated tests based on the defined scenarios. It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). Do you have Agile-certified team members and technical leads?

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Announcing the full agenda for TC Sessions: Robotics happening this July

TechCrunch

We’ll also be speaking with top VCs and the CEOs of Boston Dynamics, Sarcos, Locus Robotics, Fetch and more, along with demos from researchers and bleeding-edge startups like Agility. Amazon’s huge bet on robotics dates back to its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems. Automating Amazon. with Joseph Quinlivan (Amazon).

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing ” where she uncovers surprises, risks, and potentially serious bugs with exploratory testing. She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. LinkedIn. 10 – Liz Keogh.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Design (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. That’s a problem for Agile. If change becomes more significantly more expensive over time, the Agile model doesn’t make sense. In fact, that’s exactly what pre-Agile methods tried to do.

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The digital lab: data insights lead to even more business-relevant research ideas

Capgemini

This is important because every experiment, every deviation from the expected test results, any minimal cell staining or deformation of the HPLC analysis curve may indicate a trial error or a decisive new discovery. Which other test results,that is data, could be used to link and expand existing data?