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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team. Test Driven Development. They use test-driven development to write tests, implement code, refactor, and incrementally design and architect the software. Continuous Deployment. Programming.

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AoAD2 Practice: Build for Operation

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. Continuous Deployment. Complicated configuration ends up being a form of code—code that’s written in a particularly lousy programming language, without abstractions or tests. It’s okay to use DEBUG logs during development, but don’t check them in. Feature Toggles.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

Lean is about Flow Efficiency The book This is Lean (Modig and Ahlström, 2013) describes “lean” as a relentless focus on efficiency – but not the kind of efficiency that cuts staff and money, nor the kind of efficiency that strives to keep every resource busy all of the time. Put the tests into a test harness for ongoing code verification.