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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. How to Be Agile. What does it mean to “be Agile?”. As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, Agile is a philosophy: a way of thinking about software development. Practicing Agile. Second Edition cover.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. The Satir Change Model Change is disruptive, and moving to Agile is no exception. This is the pre-Agile way of working. Second Edition cover.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Otherwise, this leads to failure with big data projects. It’s also feeding into the management level at companies. They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”.