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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. By Emily Bache.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

While Scrum can be a specific IT or tech skill, some organizations will hire a Scrum master , someone who is responsible for overseeing Scrum principles in the workplace, establishing Scrum practices, and helping others learn and understand the Scrum framework. What is a Scrum master?

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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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AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Technically, two teams of three people form a large-scale system—a small one—if they depend on each other to finish their work.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Take a coach interested in trying Agile, assemble a team of novices, shake well, and bake for three years. Test-Driven Development.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Technical skills. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. Your feedback is appreciated! Whole Team. At least it‘s Ops’ problem now.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. Choose Agile Coaches.

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