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August 6th in Washington, DC: How to Introduce Test-Driven Development to Your Team (Workshop)

James Shore

This session is geared towards Scrummasters, coaches, managers, and anyone else who’s in a leadership role and isn’t a programmer themselves. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an essential skill for agile teams. Without it, codebases quickly lose the flexibility needed to support agile development.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. OpenSesame had a pretty innovative approach to career development before I joined. Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. The cert recognizes candidates’ knowledge of agile principles and skill with agile techniques.

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? This half-day intermediate-level workshop addresses and abolishes the frustration so often associated with Test-Driven Development. Wednesday at 8:00 AM | 2202. See you there?

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

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. If customer skills are about figuring out what to do, development skills are about figuring out how to do it. Test Driven Development.

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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, M. Coaches like Green help them to hone their skills and go through rituals more effectively. Programming Leadership Podcast: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right? Dojo Consortium: [link]. Transcript. David: Sure.

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