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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. But the majority of software development costs are maintenance costs, not build costs.

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My Best Essays

James Shore

I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. Dependency Injection Demystified - 22 Mar, 2006. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008. Continuous Integration on a Dollar a Day - 27 Feb, 2006. Test-driven development in a nutshell.

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My Best Essays

James Shore

I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. Dependency Injection Demystified - 22 Mar, 2006. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008. Continuous Integration on a Dollar a Day - 27 Feb, 2006. Test-driven development in a nutshell.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

After that point, the software team supported the other engineering disciplines while continuing to do software enhancements. Van Schooenderwoert 2006]. These folks had everything stacked against them—except their coach and her approach to software development. Test-Driven Development.

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AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile?

James Shore

1 See, for example, [Van Schooenderwoert 2006], [Mah 2006], and [Anderson 2006]. In addition to the structure of development, XP includes advanced technical practices that lead to excellence. The most well-known practice is test-driven development, which helps programmers write code that does exactly what they intend.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Coffin 2006] describes an experience with two nearly identical teams: one that didn’t include users’ perspective and one that did. In particular, they need experience with test-driven development, refactoring, and evolutionary design. They often stem from outdated views of software development.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Rooney 2006] experienced that problem, with regrettable results: We weren’t sure what our priorities were. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team. Test Driven Development. Artistic skills.