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Scaled Agile – Why? When? How?

Modus Create

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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5 Books to Achieve the Mindset of a Software Craftsman ??

Xebia

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Extreme Programming Explained : Embrace Change. It contains lessons ranging from programming best practices to recognizing and preventing issues in code. Extreme Programming Explained. Agile software development is commonplace, but what is its essence?

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The Patrol Method and Self Directed Agile Teams

The Agile Manager

As part of my research into method earlier this year, I picked up a 1959 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook. The early editions of the Boy Scouts of America's version of the Boy Scout Handbook were mostly written by the same person, William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt , and revised over many years. Each troop works out its own way."

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Expanding Agile-plus-DevOps Across the Enterprise Value Stream

CollabNet VersionOne

Author and speaker Gene Kim defines DevOps in The DevOps Handbook as, “The emerging professional movement that advocates a collaborative working relationship between Development and IT Operations, resulting in the fast flow of planned work (i.e.,

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Building the business case and roadmap for transformation

Capgemini

In the digital era, CIOs of large enterprises face a fundamental dilemma: they must both perform – increase operational excellence, reduce costs, and make existing systems faster – and transform – move the company to digital business models, enhance the customer experience, enable always-on innovation, and become more agile. Assessment.

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Backend Interview with Ileana Diaz – Backend Developer at Apiumhub

Apiumhub

Pair program with more experienced developers. During my career I have read lot of books about application development, but I think that there are books that all junior developer should read, for example: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Areas of focus in the code. Find a mentor.

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The Patrol Method and Objections to Self-Directed Agile Teams

The Agile Manager

In the previous post , we saw there are quite a few similarities between the Patrol method and self-directed Agile teams. Some people responsible for delivery of large programs or simple projects may be more comfortable concentrating authority rather than distributing it. If that's the case, one can learn from the other.