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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. Without it, codebases quickly lose the flexibility needed to support agile development.

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Pace of Tech Demands a Smarter Learning Approach. Bring On Community-Driven Learning

CIO

To succeed in this approach, businesses need good leadership and appropriate time allocation. IT Leadership It is a system open to everyone, with managers, who understand the incoming strategic requirements of the business, helping to prioritize topics and identify potential trainers.

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Back to the Office With the Agile Fluency® Game

James Shore

Senior Learning & Development Manager. “[Our Our leadership team] experienced 20 years of agile learning in 4 hours!”. The shift from playing the game gave new focus to our discussion of leadership challenges.”. —VP, The game uses experiential learning to bring software development concepts to life. How’d that happen?

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

Performance as a function of environment and motivation Performance of a team can be described as a function of resources, demands, leadership, and motivation (inspired by JDR-WE model proposed by Bakker & Demerouti et al and further refined by Xanthopoulou et al). Performance refers to behavior as well as outcomes.

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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. Programming Leadership Podcast: [link]. Announcer: Welcome to The Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy, high performing software teams. Episode 46. Dojo Consortium: [link]. Transcript.

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New live online training courses

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Leadership Communication Skills for Managers , July 29. Advanced Test-Driven Development (TDD) , June 27. Test-Driven Development In Python , June 28. Having Difficult Conversations , July 25. Giving a Powerful Presentation , July 25. The Power of Lean in Software Projects , July 25.

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Software Testing and Agile

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released, scenario testing introduced, Test Driven Development defined, Agile Testing Quadrant defined, Test Maturity Model (TMMi) published, and since their inception in 1992, STAR East and STAR West Conferences continue. 2011–2020 and Beyond.