CIO

MAY 20, 2024

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. But many organizations are still struggling to achieve agility and state that progress is still slow and projects are stalled.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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 post Quality Engineering Has DevOps and Agile in the Driving Seat appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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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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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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LaunchDarkly

MAY 26, 2022

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

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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

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? Were an organization thats steeped in Agile thinking. Agile only succeeds if the organization really gets behind it. You can share these ideas as an examples of what to do to support your Agile teams.

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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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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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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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CIO

APRIL 22, 2022

Offered by the PMI, the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification is designed to validate your knowledge of agile principles and skills with agile techniques. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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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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OverOps

JULY 15, 2019

It’s the place to be for rich interactions with other developers, both new and experienced. Continuous Reliability: An agile process to deliver higher quality applications. Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? Thursday at 3:45 PM | 2210.

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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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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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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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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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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. Even large-scale processes like Agile that cover a whole team have this built into them.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

They’re adding community-driven learning to their existing training approaches. They recognize the wealth of knowledge held by individuals in their teams, and create an agile, natural process to share this knowledge via hands-on workshops. A handful of companies have found a solution.

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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). BDD offers many short- and long-term benefits to Agile teams, including: .

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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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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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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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Xebia

JULY 27, 2022

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Agile software development is commonplace, but what is its essence? Are you curious about what agile software development entails? Extreme Programming Explained introduces a set of values, principles, and practices on developing software with agility.

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2022

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. Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Are you curious about what agile software development entails?

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. With these aforementioned memory joggers, a few questions come to mind: Has the introduction of agile helped or hindered software testing?

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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

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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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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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

To reach this goal, companies must embark on an Agile Transformation journey. Agile Transformation is not (only) about methodology. Becoming an agile company is a complex process. Software craftmanship: Your software development lifecycle will also change as part of the Agile Transformation journey.

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