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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. How do I measure productivity?

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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. It enables teams to deliver value faster, with greater quality and predictability, and greater aptitude to respond to change.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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Lessons learned from the React Global Online Summit 22 – Junior Track

Apiumhub

The React Global Online Summit started with Sohini Pattanayak, Associate Product Manager at Entando, who helps developers, architects, and enterprises accelerate development through the use of modular architecture in composable applications. Test-Driven Development for Building User Interfaces – Tyler Hawkins.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

As we’ve put it into practice, it’s definitely been a lot of work for managers to fill out the spreadsheets. For managers that know their employees well, the work’s been tolerable. For managers that are new to their team, it’s been tough. They've developed broader generalist skills and deeper specialist skills.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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A Guide to Program Increment (PI) Planning: Why PI Planning is the greatest tool you can have

Gorilla Logic

Program Increment (PI) Planning, following the definition provided by Scaled Agile, “ is a cadence-based, face-to-face event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and vision. ” . The team can focus on writing code. Allows teams to think ahead.