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AoAD2 Practice: Continuous Integration

James Shore

Continuous Integration. Most software development efforts have a hidden delay between when the team says “we’re done” and when the software is actually ready to release. Continuous integration is a better approach. Teams using continuous integration keep everyone’s code working together and ready to release.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility

James Shore

One of the limits on your ability to scale will be the availability of skilled coaches. Remember, coaches are the people who help each team learn how to apply Agile ideas and practices.) If you’re taking a home-grown approach to your coaches, each team will need a dedicated team member to act as coach.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. This might be a product manager or senior developer. Development Skills. If customer skills are about figuring out what to do, development skills are about figuring out how to do it. Test Driven Development.

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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

Coaching can be an effective tool here, but bringing on board new talent is also useful, especially top and middle managers. Software craftmanship: Your software development lifecycle will also change as part of the Agile Transformation journey.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. To help out, were supporting the career ladder changes with an XP coaching team.

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Scrum by Example – ScrumMaster for Three Teams? What are the Alternatives?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Theyve heard all about Test Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Collective Code Ownership, Refactoring, Simple Design, etc, however theyre having trouble getting past rudimentary Unit Testing. Theyre really struggling to make it happen.

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