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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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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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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

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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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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. Customer skills fall in to several categories, as follows: Product management (aka product ownership).

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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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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members. They work closely with the team's other technical leads to advise engineering managers on the capabilities and needs of the team. They bring a breadth and depth of expertise that people are happy to learn from.

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Why Your Agile Adoption Should Pay For Itself Within the First Program Increment

Net Objectives

By learning Agile Product Management before shifting to a SAFe-like program increment planning event, groups can shorten the program increment being planned to 2-4 sprints instead of the normal 5-7. If you don't want to use SAFe, product management with some Lean-Agile coaching can be used instead. .

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