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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. OpenSesame had a pretty innovative approach to career development before I joined. Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. mostly a matter of documenting what they already know. They've begun to demonstrate peer leadership skills and are developing their abilities as generalizing specialists. They've developed broader generalist skills and deeper specialist skills.

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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, M. Coaches like Green help them to hone their skills and go through rituals more effectively. Programming Leadership Podcast: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right? Dojo Consortium: [link]. Transcript. David: Sure.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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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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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

So, what allows me to do this—what allows me to do this show, this software development show every week, and what allows me to write this book—is the people who hire me for training and consulting. First, business analysts would interview stakeholders and document the system requirements. Of course you needed to document every phase.

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