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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO

In this article, Mik explains common misconceptions about agile development and how to properly apply and develop an agile culture. Depending on what your organization’s needs are, this typically includes a product manager, a product designer, and several engineers.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). The BVOP Certified Project Manager is for senior practitioners with experience in both project management and people management. Price: $130.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Customer skills fall in to several categories, as follows: Product management (aka product ownership). Product management involves managing all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, from the initial business case all the way to product launch and beyond. Iteration Demo. Real Customer Involvement.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

An Optimizing team needs business expertise, but they don’t necessarily need a traditional product manager. Sometimes technical team members with a lot of company history know their product and its market better than anyone else. Organizations can also develop blame culture , which responds to mistakes by punishing culprits.

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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. Sales and product management, in particular, want accurate forecasting (often called “estimating”). It’s understandable!

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

To counter sequential processes and the long integration and defect removal phase, agile software development practices focused on fast feedback cycles in these areas: Test-driven development: Start by writing tests (think of them as executable specifications) and then write the code to pass the tests.