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AoAD2 Practice: Blind Spot Discovery

James Shore

More than anything else, teams build the wrong thing. More than anything else, teams build the wrong thing. I think this happens because so many teams think of their job as building the product they were told to build. Exploratory Testing. Test-Driven Development.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

QSM Associates is a well-regarded company that performs independent audits of software development teams. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is your defect-elimination workhorse. Use stories to focus the team on customers’ perspective. Test-Driven Development.

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Velocity 2019 will focus on the rise of cloud native infrastructure

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Nearly all organizations today are doing some of their business in the cloud, but the push for increased feature performance and reliability has sparked a growing number to embrace a cloud native infrastructure. To harness the cloud’s cost and performance benefits, organizations have found that a cloud native approach is a necessity.

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7 Business Drivers for More Software Engineering Excellence

Accenture

We’ve known for a long time, before Agile was even named, that there are good practices the development team should do. They should test their code, they should review their code, they should integrate with other teams building programs, they should work with the business and make sure that we’re building the right thing.

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AoAD2 Practice: Build for Operation

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. Complicated configuration ends up being a form of code—code that’s written in a particularly lousy programming language, without abstractions or tests. If performance worsens, how will you determine what to fix? Whole Team. Feature Toggles. Continuous Deployment. Prerequisites.

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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). The certification covers how to plan, execute, control, and complete project schedules and how to develop project measures, approach project control, and lead project teams.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

A year later, Harvard Business School published Product Development Performance. Clark and Fujimoto, 1991) and the popular book Developing Products in Half the Time (Smith and Reinertsen, 1991) was released. Put the tests into a test harness for ongoing code verification. 1990), which gave us the term “lean.”