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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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). Scrum: Novice to Ninja: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

QSM found 11% defect reduction and 58% schedule reduction on a Scrum team; 75% defect reduction and 53% schedule reduction on an XP team; and 75% defect reduction and 30% schedule reduction in a multi-team analysis of thousands of developers. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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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. Culture & m indset: Mark Fields, President of Ford, declared: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. He wasn’t kidding. So, how long will it all take?

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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 focus on a people-oriented culture sets it apart from other project management certification programs. Requirements: General familiarity with Scrum; completion of two-day CSM training course.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Another popular approach is the facilitator-coach , often called a Scrum Master , 3 who leads from the sidelines by facilitating conversations and resolving organizational roadblocks. 3 The name “Scrum Master” originated in the popular “Scrum” method. 4 If you make the investments in this chapter, that is. That’s okay.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team. Test Driven Development. They use test-driven development to write tests, implement code, refactor, and incrementally design and architect the software.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

In this case, a closer look at the event reveals that, although the team used test-driven development and pairing for production code, they didn’t apply that standard to their scripts. Preventing this distancing is a matter of organizational culture, which puts it out of the scope of this book. The big ones get worse. “As