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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Furthermore, the XP teams delivered 24% faster with 39% fewer staff. More recent case studies confirmed those findings. Because fluent Delivering teams build quality in, rather than testing defects out, people with testing skills “shift left.” Ultimately, “no bugs” is about establishing a culture of excellence.

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Agile Q&A with Scaled Agile Expert Dean Leffingwell

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Dean: “I first learned of Scrum and XP in the late nineties. I saw how XP and Scrum worked well for small teams, but it didn’t seem like something for me because I was dealing with really big teams building really big systems. We are in a strong cultural, thought leadership, distribution and financial position.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

Cross-functional teams: Development teams should include customer proxies and testers as well as developers to minimize handovers. This was aided by the widespread adoption of Scrum, an agile methodology which institutionalized the third and fourth practices listed above, but unfortunately omitted the first two practices.