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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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Key Challenges In Agile Implementations On QA Eyes

Xoriant

Largely we found “Scrum and Acceptance Test-Driven” as the better model for solution projects whereas for Support “Kanban and “Acceptance Test-Driven” is preferred. Create an initial Testing strategy: Created initial testing strategy for all Test Levels by analysing different types of risks and their solutions.

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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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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? Yet without a solid foundation in the technology that produces great systems, agile is pretty hollow.

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The Scaling Dilemma

LeanEssays

One of the things Scrum has contributed to the practice of software development is the idea that small autonomous teams perform much better than large project teams or single-discipline teams that work in sequence.

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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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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

To counter sequential processes and the long integration and defect removal phase, agile software development practices focused on fast feedback cycles in these areas: Test-driven development: Start by writing tests (think of them as executable specifications) and then write the code to pass the tests.