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August 6th in Washington, DC: How to Introduce Test-Driven Development to Your Team (Workshop)

James Shore

This session is geared towards Scrummasters, coaches, managers, and anyone else who’s in a leadership role and isn’t a programmer themselves. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an essential skill for agile teams. Without it, codebases quickly lose the flexibility needed to support agile development.

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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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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. The cert recognizes candidates’ knowledge of agile principles and skill with agile techniques.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. They've begun to demonstrate peer leadership skills and are developing their abilities as generalizing specialists. However, they have enough experience to take a strong peer leadership role in their teams. So far, this seems to be working.

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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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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

Performance as a function of environment and motivation Performance of a team can be described as a function of resources, demands, leadership, and motivation (inspired by JDR-WE model proposed by Bakker & Demerouti et al and further refined by Xanthopoulou et al). Resources refer to characteristics that help to cope with demands (e.g.,

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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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