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AoAD2 Practice: Refactoring

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We revise and improve the design of existing code. That’s what everybody says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. Test-Driven Development. Refactoring.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Productivity was measured at almost three times the level for comparable embedded software teams. Van Schooenderwoert 2006]. Pick two.”.

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AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile?

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Its benefits—even the ability to release software more frequently—come from working differently, not from working faster. Brooks 1995].

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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Developers, Whole Team. Do you want to waste half your time sitting in sullen silence watching somebody else code? Their job is to code.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. In reality, failure is a consequence of the entire development system in which work is performed.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Your feedback is appreciated! But at last, you ship. At least it‘s Ops’ problem now.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first.

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