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Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. Performance Tests run.

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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. The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. Understanding extreme programming (XP) and why it’s valuable (23:41). Extreme Programming: [link]. Episode 46.

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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). At a minimum, your stakeholders are likely to include: technical leads, QA leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, QA engineers. What’s BDD?

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Next, mix in even more bugs by with concurrent programming. In an early analysis of a company practicing a variant of Extreme Programming (XP), they reported an average reduction from 2,270 defects to 381 defects, an 83% decrease. Programmer errors occur when a programmer knows what to program, but makes a mistake. How about C?

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Don’t forget the developers!

Silk and Spinach

In many of them I see a familiar pattern: The managers and business analysts are sent on courses and sent to conferences and given books to read; most of them change their job title to things like Scrum Master or Product Owner; they create their plans using “stories” written on post-it notes, and they organise their projects into Sprints.

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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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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). The focus on a people-oriented culture sets it apart from other project management certification programs. The CDP program is only for those who have significant project management experience.