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Article: Craftleadership: Craft Your Leadership as Developers Craft Code

InfoQ Culture Methods

Learning software craftership made me reconsider how I wrote code. Being an experienced software team manager, I try to reevaluate my management practices in the same way: what could Test Driven Management or Pair-management be?

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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. Software accrues technical debt and becomes difficult to change. TDD helps avoid these problems.

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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Here are some highlights of our journey as a software testing profession since the creation of the Manifesto (compliments of Google and testingreferences.com): 2001–2010 Software Testing Highlights.

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Main senior developer characteristics & qualities

Apiumhub

One of the things we have seen in software development workd is that just because people have been a developer for a long time, that doesn’t mean they have gotten excellent at it. Leadership. Knowing design patterns, software architecture, automating testing, performance, scalability, security, TDD, CI, etc.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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GOTO x Apiumhub Partnership

Apiumhub

Register with the promo code VYou15 for 15% off: gotoams.nl. GOTO Amsterdam is a leading software development conference that gathers the pioneers and game-changing coders who shape the industry and radically improve the way we look at software. About the event. Talks & Masterclasses. GOTO is all about the talks.

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Uncle Bob Martin challenges software industry to Grow-up

Storm Consulting

The State of Software talk by Robert C. Agile Manifesto author and software expert Robert Martin asks if it is time for us to take responsibility for our work? He chunked his talk on the state of software into four timeboxes of fifteen minutes each. I savoured that simple act of leadership by example.