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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.

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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD. A quick primer on TDD.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

TechCrunch

Hit me baby one more time : Manish also writes about Google, which got its second penalty from India’s antitrust watchdog, this time $113 million for what the organization said was anticompetitive practices with Play Store policies. Tomorrow, we’ll run his detailed TDD checklist. The first was a $161.9

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Why Testing is No Longer Sufficient for Today’s Software Delivery Pipelines

OverOps

Over a decade ago, when Test-Driven Development (TDD) was introduced, it promised to improve productivity and quality. Companies are under pressure to move fast to remain viable, even those that have been around for over 100 years, and they need to move twice as fast to defend their position and remain competitive.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations.

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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

The pressure to out-innovate the competition is high, and organizations need to be able to move quickly without compromising the quality of the services their customers depend on. Join James Quick as he shared his own experience with leading this transition in his own organization and what he learned from it. Friday at 8:30 AM | 2201.