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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. But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first.

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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 certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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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. There are a number of different engineering practices that you can work on in a dojo environment. There are a number of different engineering practices that you can work on in a dojo environment. David: Sure. What is the dojo?

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

OverOps

Dig in deeper with this intermediate-level session with Jayashree S Kumar, a Software Engineer at IBM’s India Software Labs. Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? Wednesday at 8:00 AM | 2202. Wednesday at 8:00 AM | 2210.

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Applying Clean Architecture to Ruby on Rails: First Impressions

The Plain Programmer

The only leak I have in the system right now is around some of my integration tests, which use the convenience of ActiveRecord to keep those tests concise and easy to understand. Test-Driven Development came very easily, and clear boundaries made it straightforward to provide sensible doubles that allowed tests to run very fast.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

Every week, we look at software engineering topics, and this week, I have a special show for you. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. Of course you needed to define requirements, then design, then implement, then test. This was engineering. Cargo Cult Agilists.

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