Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I was inspired by Dave Nicolette's session at Agile 2008 and used the Danilo Santo's paper on their Brazilian Coding Dojo as a guide. After the session we conducted a very short retrospective using happy and sad post it notes and dot voting (both from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great ). Let people make mistakes.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

When the Agile Manifesto came out 20 years ago, I really liked what it said. Startups were quite agile long before the manifesto used that term. Over the decades as I watched the Agile movement mature, I was often fairly vocal about what I thought were mistakes in its direction. Then you are truly agile.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 2, 2019

NexoQA offers a wide variety of courses related to software testing, from the most basic with fundamental topics on testing to test management courses and advanced software testing topics such as automated testing & performance testing. Advanced Test Engineering. Advanced Agile Testing.

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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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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? I walked them through an exercise right there on the CEOs dining room table. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. But its still an interesting thought exercise.

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Marcusoft

JANUARY 27, 2020

I have not done that one day as a professional developer. Nor as an agile coach. Test-driven development - 10 minutes. During this time our developers are only doing code. We pull them through exercises that are, for most people, way beyond the scope of what they would cope with individually each day.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

OReilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively. A good next step is asking an AI assistant to generate unit tests, either for existing code or some new code (which leads to test-driven development). You are still responsible for delivering working software.

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James Shore

JUNE 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. This is an important part of the “no bugs” attitude found on the best Agile teams.

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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. Agile teams understand failures are inevitable. Second Edition cover. Sit down and wait.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 29, 2009

Test Driven Development (TDD) for those that are unfamiliar with it, is more or less a "game" to be played while coding, with a set of three "laws" orienting a programmer's efforts. The programmer essentially builds up the program by first building simple tests and then making the code cause the tests to pass.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. So in a moment.

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