James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Scaling Agility. A system of interdependent Agile teams is called large-scale Agile.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Investing in Agility. They’re the secret to Agile success. Second Edition cover.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.

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NeverFriday

JUNE 7, 2013

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. Preventing Programming Errors with TDD.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 29, 2019

This is an excerpt from Introducing FLEX – FLow for Enterprise Transformation: Going Beyond Lean and Agile (online book). If you are looking for an alternative to SAFe, this is it.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s been nearly a year since the new edition of The Art of Agile Development was released, and I’m celebrating by making a baker’s dozen of its practices available for free! Or use this handy list: Free Introductory Material: What is Agile? How to Be Agile. Choose Your Agility. Development: Zero Friction.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. It struck me that the reason an organization opts for late adoption is to learn from those who go first – from the companies that bushwhacked through the agile swamp a decade ago, or the organizations that followed a few years later.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 6, 2019

I’ve written a chapter in my book on The Relationship Between ATDD and Design Patterns. Essentially, ATDD provides us with quality acceptance criteria in the form of test specifications. Doing this makes for … Continue reading "The Relationship Between Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns".

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Agile isn’t a silver bullet, either. Your teams will need time to learn Agile.

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James Shore

JANUARY 11, 2019

I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. The Agile Fluency™ Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile - 6 Mar 2018. A model for getting the most out of agile ideas. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008.

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James Shore

MARCH 10, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Developers. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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Software Review Weak Development Team Test-Driven Development Systems Review 118

James Shore

JANUARY 11, 2019

I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. The Agile Fluency™ Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile - 6 Mar 2018. A model for getting the most out of agile ideas. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008.

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Test-Driven Development Agile Continuous Integration Testing 60

James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Join us on Fridays from 8-8:45am Pacific for wide-ranging discussions about Agile. Fast, Reliable Tests. Test-Driven Development.

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Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 114

James Shore

APRIL 12, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. removes the delays that slow down development. Test-Driven Development” on p.XX

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. What is an Agile Dojo? (00:53). David Green join with me today and we are going to talk about Agile Dojos.

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James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Editing is what helps the book or article make sense to the reader. For a developer working on updates or adding new features to an application, reading previous code that hasn’t been refactored is akin to reading a novel that hasn’t been properly edited. Get the development to pass basic testing. Preparatory Refactoring.

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Silk and Spinach

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I visit numerous organisations that are implementing “agile transformations”. In order to deliver a working product increment every two weeks, indeed to work at all effectively in an agile way, programmers need to learn a whole raft of new skills and modes of thought. Update, 20 Oct 17. My slides (without animations) are here.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. The first field test units were delivered after approximately six months into development.

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Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Test-Driven Development 80

James Shore

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Cargo Cult Agile. Most of these skills are out of the scope of this book.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Among the experts, you may find: Mark Richards: hands-on software architect and co-author of the book “Fundamentals of Software Architecture” Neal Ford: Software Architect & Director at ThoughWorks. Nate co-authored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough.

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Apiumhub

JULY 24, 2023

Furthermore, Carlos highlighted the rising trend of bringing frontend development closer to native code through technologies like WebAssembly (Wasm) and web containers. Viktor Farcic We also had the great opportunity to interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate at Upbound, host of DevOps Toolkit, and cohost of the podcast DevOps Paradox.

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James Shore

APRIL 12, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve probably noticed by now that Agile teams value concrete data over speculation.

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Technical Review Software Review Test-Driven Development Testing 58

James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Weak Development Team 83

James Shore

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Second Edition cover. Be sure to document it.

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Examples Software Review Test-Driven Development Testing 64

James Shore

MAY 7, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. The integration branch must always build and pass its tests. Test-Driven Development.

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Net Objectives

JULY 14, 2018

Many people think of Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) as an advanced practice. Others think that using Given When Then (GWT) from Behavior Driven Development (BDD) requires the use of tools. Neither of these are true however. Al Shalloway.

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James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Second Edition cover. Sign up here.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 10, 2019

With a name like TEST-driven development you’d expect TDD is mostly about testing. Especially when the end result is tests. In our book Design Patterns Explained we discussed how testability (how easily code can be tested) is an intrinsic property of software and is highly correlated with good design.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

All too often, I hear of organizations where Skills Matrices are a function of Human Resources and the information is used to poach team members for other projects —this approach is 180 degrees from the Agile use of the tool. Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development). every 4-6 weeks) and time.

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James Shore

APRIL 29, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. But Agile teams create simple designs that don’t anticipate the future. Simple Design.

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Software Review Test-Driven Development Testing Authentication 64

Prisma Clud

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

So let’s look at some tactical things security teams can take out of developers’ books to improve their own workflows. Always Be Testing Developers are always testing, going so far as doing test-driven development , where tests—such as unit and integration tests—are built-in before the first line of code is even typed.

Open Source 52

Open Source Test-Driven Development Testing Engineering 52

James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Second Edition cover. Sign up here.

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Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Test-Driven Development 52

James Shore

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Develop customer skills. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated! Whole Team.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. The details of how to respond during an incident are out of the scope of this book.

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Analysis Weak Development Team Software Review Systems Review 72

James Shore

MARCH 12, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Pair programming is one of the most controversial Agile ideas. Test-Driven Development.

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