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Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method

Agile Alliance

The focus is specifically on technical practices and how people write code, and it's the best way I know to help software developers to adopt practices like TDD and Refactoring. The post Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. By Emily Bache.

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Agile Book Club: Test-Driven Development (with Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J.B. Rainsberger)

James Shore

In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. He’s a software development coach who works with software organizations around the world. His video essay, TDD & The Lump of Coding Fallacy , is a great explanation of why TDD saves development time. Rainsberger.

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Learn to apply TDD in Javascript with Steven Hicks, Senior Engineer, speaker, writer and teacher who embraces the philosophy that a developer’s job is to solve problems, not just write code. But there is a better way, as outlined in this session by Competence Coach Hannes Lowette. Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing.

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Don't Measure Unit Test Code Coverage

James Shore

Instead, use coaching and discipline-enhancing practices such as pairing or mobbing. Here's the thing about TDD. The definition of TDD is that you don't write code without a failing test, and you do so in a tight loop that covers one branch at a time. So if you're doing TDD, any code you want to cover is ipso facto covered.

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Article: The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach

InfoQ Culture Methods

For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change.

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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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