2003 Product Management Test-Driven Development 
James Shore
OCTOBER 27, 2020
There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first. An Optimizing team needs business expertise, but they don’t necessarily need a traditional product manager. Poppendieck and Poppendieck 2003]. How much will they slow down?
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
Software engineering productivity cant be measured. The question of measuring productivity is a famous one, and the best minds in the industry have concluded it cant be done. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity?
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LeanEssays
JUNE 5, 2015
In 1999, Kent Beck proposed a radically new approach to software development in the book “Extreme Programming Explained” (Beck, 1999). Put the tests into a test harness for ongoing code verification. It was exciting to watch the expansion of test-driven development and continuous integration during the decade of 2000-2010.
James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2020
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. The contractor building VCF agreed to fix the problems, but only at the cost of an additional $56 million and another year of development.
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