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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. They’re beginning to demonstrate peer leadership skills and develop their abilities as generalizing specialists.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Technical skills. A great team can produce technically excellent software without on-site customers, but to truly succeed, your software must also bring value to real customers, users, and your organization. Test Driven Development. Test Driven Development.