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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.

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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD.

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Agile Book Club: Test-Driven Development (with Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J.B. Rainsberger)

James Shore

Test-Driven Development is one of the few truly new Agile ideas. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. He’s a software development coach who works with software organizations around the world. When do you find it useful to stop using TDD? About the Book Club.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

When the Agile Manifesto came out 20 years ago, I really liked what it said. Startups were quite agile long before the manifesto used that term. Over the decades as I watched the Agile movement mature, I was often fairly vocal about what I thought were mistakes in its direction. Then you are truly agile.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations.

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Agile Book Club: User Stories (with Bill Wake)

James Shore

Possibly more ink has been spilled on this topic than any other aspect of Agile. We’re joined by Bill Wake, an agile coach who is known for the INVEST acronym for user stories, the Arrange-Act-Assert TDD pattern, and for articles at xp123.com. And yet many organizations use stories as a form of documentation instead.

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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities.