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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Coaches like Green help them to hone their skills and go through rituals more effectively. The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. Engaged scrum masters are essential for long-term change (26:49). Show Notes. David: Sure.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Take a coach interested in trying Agile, assemble a team of novices, shake well, and bake for three years. This is how it turns out: The GMS team delivered this product after three years of development, having encountered a total of 51 defects during that time. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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

Capgemini

This can be achieved using methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, DevOps etc, leading to responsive business prioritization and short delivery iterations. Culture & m indset: Mark Fields, President of Ford, declared: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. He wasn’t kidding. So, how long will it all take?

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. This might be a product manager or senior developer. Development Skills. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

So, what allows me to do this—what allows me to do this show, this software development show every week, and what allows me to write this book—is the people who hire me for training and consulting. Less, with full-time coaching. Some people like finding scapegoats, and some companies have a culture of assigning blame.

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