James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A good next step is asking an AI assistant to generate unit tests, either for existing code or some new code (which leads to test-driven development). Unit tests are a useful exercise because testing logic is usually simple; its easy to see if the generated code is incorrect.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. Instead, use coaching and discipline-enhancing practices such as pairing or mobbing. To add tests to legacy code. To build up tests in legacy code, don't worry about overall progress.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

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. They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members. These skill sets haven’t been defined yet.

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James Shore

JANUARY 31, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. Instead, use coaching and discipline-enhancing practices such as pairing or mobbing. To add tests to legacy code. To build up tests in legacy code, don't worry about overall progress.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

Take a coach interested in trying Agile, assemble a team of novices, shake well, and bake for three years. This is how it turns out: The GMS team delivered this product after three years of development, having encountered a total of 51 defects during that time. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

While you can take a course and then pay for coaching after the workshop to learn this is not just expensive but wastes the time of your staff and often produces resistance. . The promoted belief that you should focus on the framework & then learn how to do this later is not just self-serving, it is wrong.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

Coaches like Green help them to hone their skills and go through rituals more effectively. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right? Your test-driven development skills, if you want to get better, a company could create an Agile Dojo, and that might be a skill that people practice—a place of practice.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members. However, this remains a coding-centric role, and the majority of their time is spent as a player-coach working alongside other team members.

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James Shore

MAY 7, 2021

The integration branch must always build and pass its tests. Without exception, it must always build and pass its tests. Test-Driven Development. Your boss is on the phone with an Agile coach. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development. Zero Friction.

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Net Objectives

JULY 1, 2018

If you don't want to use SAFe, product management with some Lean-Agile coaching can be used instead. . Dollar cost of new training/coaching. People cost (their lost time) due to this training/coaching takes. Added cost of delay of value realization that this training/coaching costs. Focus on the work, not the framework.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

One of my coworkers likes to practice TDD (test driven development) as much as possible. So when we pair, we’ll practice that: “hey, I’ll write the first test and then you write the implementation,” and then we switch back and forth. And we can take turns on who’s driving and who’s talking.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 3, 2019

Developing Your Coaching Skills , April 22. Test-Driven Development In Python , May 21. Product Management in 90 Minutes , April 11. Spotlight on Data: Creating Smart Products Requires Collaboration, with Gretchen Anderson , April 15. Agile for Everybody , April 18. Managing Stress and Building Resiliency , May 2.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

purpose and vision, performance feedbacks, objectives and key results), or lead to personal growth and development (e.g., coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). test-driven development, pair programming, continuous delivery) and outcome performance (e.g.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

We run experiments that we hypothesize will improve the situation (Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development, Behaviour-Driven Development) and look to see if the data from these experiments supports this outcome. Do you want to coach your team towards better solutions?

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The Plain Programmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Test-Driven Development came very easily, and clear boundaries made it straightforward to provide sensible doubles that allowed tests to run very fast. The project currently stands at a measly 389 lines of application code, with a test to code ratio of 2.5 to 1, and the 248 tests currently run in just over 4.1

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

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. Less, with full-time coaching. Because when you have a large environment, teams often form bottlenecks. I’ll just read this real quick.

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Marcusoft

JANUARY 27, 2020

I have not done that one day as a professional developer. Nor as an agile coach. In our accelerated career program, we train developers the opposite way. Test-driven development - 10 minutes. We introduce a concept, just too little of it. No, I’m not kidding - it’s quite painful to do.

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Codegiant

APRIL 14, 2020

Test-Driven Development ?—?TDD TDD encourages you to write automated code first and then develop just-enough code in order to pass the test later. Lukasz Olczyk is an Agile coach and strategic consultant. “A It mainly consists of speculation, collaboration, and learning.

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