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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, M. 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]. Episode 46.

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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. That’s because the significant gains in development speed and release frequency you need to be a responsive, agile organization have ramifications for the overall delivery quality.

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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). It’s a certification aimed at senior project managers, agile professionals, product managers and owners, Scrum masters, and business analysts. CompTIA Project+.

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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 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

They seamlessly defer leadership responsibilities from one person to the next, moment to moment, depending on the task at hand and the expertise of those involved. 3 The name “Scrum Master” originated in the popular “Scrum” method. Agile relies on self-organizing teams. 4 If you make the investments in this chapter, that is.

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Pitfalls of Agile Transformations

LeanEssays

Once you get past the sales pitches and confirmation biases, it doesn’t take much research to discover that agile and Scrum don’t have such a great track record. Question 1: Should you use Scrum or Continuous Delivery? You need good engineers to take up the challenge supported by leadership that appreciates the importance of the issue.

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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. Because when you have a large environment, teams often form bottlenecks. By the late ’90s, these methods were attracting serious attention.

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