CIO

MAY 3, 2024

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.

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James Shore

MARCH 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. Test-Driven Development. Second Edition cover. Programmers. Try it anyway.

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James Shore

MAY 11, 2022

That’s a problem for Agile, because if change becomes significantly more expensive over time, the Agile model doesn’t make sense. So instead, Agile teams can use evolutionary design: a way of starting simple and improving your design as you go. It’s essential to long-term Agile success. What does it look like in practice?

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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. By Emily Bache.

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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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OverOps

JULY 15, 2019

Good news if you’re a developer! The 11 th annual Kansas City Developer Conference is just around the corner , on July 18 th and 19 th at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City (with a pre-conference workshop day on July 17 th ). Continuous Reliability: An agile process to deliver higher quality applications.

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2022

Which books should you read as a software developer? Software Developers Should Read the Right Books. To save you from mistakes I’ve made, I’ll share five books that accelerate your growth greatly as an ambitious software developer: Apprenticeship Patterns : Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

By popular demand, my Faster, More Effective Test-Driven Development course in now available in an in-depth two-day version! If you’ve ever struggled with slow tests, tests that randomly fail, or difficulty refactoring, you need this course. 27 Feb 2020. James Shore/Calendar. This is a great course.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. That implicit context is a critical part of software development and also has to be made available to AI.

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SCRUMstudy

MARCH 29, 2018

The Agile methodology is a popular project management approach for software development and implementation. Many software development companies are adopting one or more of the methods included under the Agile canopy, because of its numerous advantages. However, it should never be thought that Agile is a free-for-all.

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Gorilla Logic

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). Developers: Pass each of the test scenarios created for each story, and pass all the test scenarios. .

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit. This certification demonstrates your ability to work on or lead an agile team.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

As opposed to the traditional software development lifecycle (aka waterfall), today’s Agile and DevOps-based software development process is more outcome-oriented. The focus on Agile and DevOps is […]. The focus on Agile and DevOps is […].

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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. James Shore, Alternatives to Acceptance Testing.

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LaunchDarkly

MAY 26, 2022

In this post, we'll examine two popular Agile methodologies and outline their pros and cons.

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Xoriant

JUNE 9, 2015

TDD is an Agile Development technique in which developers write test cases before writing the corresponding code for the user story assigned to him. Once the code passes the Acceptance test, the code is then refactored /simplified to be used as production code. Test Driven Development Approach.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 8, 2021

Most developers believe in the value of unit tests, even if they don't always like writing them. Most of them are okay with writing unit tests while doing new development work or practicing test-driven development (TDD), but it's easy to be disciplined with greenfield development.

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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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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

MAY 3, 2019

I’m leading a half-day training workshop at the Agile 2019 conference , which is in Washington D.C. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an essential skill for agile teams. Without it, codebases quickly lose the flexibility needed to support agile development. on August 5-9.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 23, 2019

The essence of agility is … Continue reading "The Third Leg of Emergent Design: Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)". The second leg is design patterns which provide insights into handling variation. The third leg is ATDD which provides us a way of discovering and clarifying the value we’ll get.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2022

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). BDD emphasizes collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders to define and deliver software that meets business requirements. Do you have Agile-certified team members and technical leads?

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Code Simplicity

MAY 10, 2014

Today there was an interesting discussion between Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , and David Heinemeier Hansson on the nature and use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), where one writes tests first and then writes code. It’s possible to minimize this point and say it’s only relevant to debugging or testing.

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

And that it’s more important to get teams actually starting Agile in the workshop than merely learning Scrum which will hopefully lead you to Agile.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 6, 2019

Doing this makes for … Continue reading "The Relationship Between Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns". We can use these to design our code from a behavior point of view instead of from an implementation point of view.

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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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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

Few budgets can meet the continuous need for up-to-the-minute learning and training, particularly in fast-evolving tech areas such as programming languages, software development, containerization, and cloud computing. They’re adding community-driven learning to their existing training approaches. A fresh approach is needed.

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Test-Driven Development Training Software Development Innovation 147

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. Development. The way your team develops matters. Test-Driven Development” on p.XX

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Development Test-Driven Development Software Review Programming 64

Xebia

JULY 27, 2022

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Growing as a software developer is hard. The Pragmatic Programmer will help you develop that consciousness for code. Do you want to develop a sense for when code is well- or ill-written? Are you missing guidelines for the craft of software development?

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Silk and Spinach

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I visit numerous organisations that are implementing “agile transformations”. But only rarely does anyone help the developers change too. The developers and the testers have at least as much to learn, and need as much support as do the managers and business analysts. These organisations have cargo cults.

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Development Agile Test-Driven Development SCRUM 60

James Shore

JANUARY 12, 2023

And what better way to refresh that teamwork than with the Agile Fluency Game? I’m happy to announce that I am now offering in-person and remote workshops featuring the Agile Fluency Game. About the Agile Fluency Game. The Agile Fluency Game is a fun and thought-provoking exercise for team members, managers, and executives.

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Games Agile Test-Driven Development Software Development 64

Apiumhub

JULY 30, 2018

We are looking for a Backend developer to join our software development team in Barcelona! At Apiumhub , we are experts in software architecture and software development. Requirements for backend developer . 2+ years of backend development experience. Agile Methodologies: Scrum ( Jira ). Who are we?

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Weak Development Team Software Review Development TDD 63

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. The best developers help everyone work quickly and well. Refactoring.

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Agile Alliance

JULY 8, 2020

Carlos is a software crafter with almost two decades of experience in software development and has been involved with the Software Craftsmanship community for more than a decade. I recently had the pleasure to interview Carlos Blé from the Canary Islands in Spain.

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Trigent

AUGUST 7, 2022

The way of testing has transformed with the rising usage of DevOps, cloud, and agile in new tech. Setting up, Scaling, or transforming your testing organization brings challenges concerning Agile/DevOps adoption, process, and test automation implementation, or even scaling the teams’ capacity.

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