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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. Transcript.

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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. Van Schooenderwoert 2006].

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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. Coaching can be an effective tool here, but bringing on board new talent is also useful, especially top and middle managers. Metrics become fundamental at this stage.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Perform the practices and ignore the investments? There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first. As they become proficient with Agile skills, their performance will increase. Agile teams’ performance changes in other ways, too.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Modern software development takes a lot of skills. And when those skills aren’t part of the team, performance suffers, as the “The Hole Team” sidebar shows. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. Whole 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. Expect teams’ performance to dip by about 10-20% for about 2-3 months per zone that they’re learning. Less, with full-time coaching.

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