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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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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. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Second Edition cover. Programmers. Try it anyway.

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How much of your QA should you outsource?

Trigent

The way of testing has transformed with the rising usage of DevOps, cloud, and agile in new tech. Setting up, Scaling, or transforming your testing organization brings challenges concerning Agile/DevOps adoption, process, and test automation implementation, or even scaling the teams’ capacity.

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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. To reach this goal, companies must embark on an Agile Transformation journey. Agile Transformation is not (only) about methodology. He wasn’t kidding.

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

Xebia

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. It would help if you had a strategy, which is what Apprenticeship Patterns offers. Agile software development is commonplace, but what is its essence? Are you curious about what agile software development entails? Apprenticeship Patterns.

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Improve User Story Acceptance Criteria with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Gorilla Logic

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). BDD offers many short- and long-term benefits to Agile teams, including: .

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

Gorilla Logic

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? Increasing feedback and the delivery of value by working in rapid, small iterations.