Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. User Stories.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 23, 2019

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JUNE 24, 2019

Today, our ScrumMaster and their Team grapple with these issues, to help you understand how they affect a Scrum Team and what you can do to prevent them from dragging you down. The original goal of Acceptance Tests for all new code wasn’t achieved in the first few Sprints after it was suggested. 3] [link]. [4] 4] [link].

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They agree to raise the issue in the next Daily Scrum. In addition they discovered that their existing Unit Tests only provide 10% Code Coverage. Day 2 During Daily Scrum Ian describes what theyve learned from installing Sonar and trying to configure PMD. Lets give them some reading/study options.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 26, 2012

There was a pause and Scrum Master Steve asked, What do you know about our estimation process? Focus improvement efforts on getting better at doing the work, i.e. learn Test Driven Development and make your build run faster. Kirby just looks around in confusion. The reply was, Nothing. What Estimation tips do you have?

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

And with no set approach in place, software development teams often find themselves in a never-ending bug chase, which is another reason behind delayed releases. Most scrum masters don’t take these points into consideration while planning their sprints. new bugs can occur at any point in time. And value is what you’ll receive?—?but

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

And with no set approach in place, software development teams often find themselves in a never-ending bug chase, which is another reason behind delayed releases. Most scrum teams don’t take these points into consideration while planning their sprints. Trust me — new bugs can occur at any point in time.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

And with no set approach in place, software development teams often find themselves in a never-ending bug chase, which is another reason behind delayed releases. Most scrum teams don’t take these points into consideration while planning their sprints. Trust me — new bugs can occur at any point in time.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JULY 18, 2012

When you still have development to test handoffs (i.e. before you start doing ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development), smaller stories enable more frequent handoffs and allow testers to work on smaller chunks of code. A number of reasons: Small stories provide focus and a short horizon for the team.

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

Most Scrum courses teach story writing w/ "As a I want so that I get ". When people learn the core of acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) using behavior driven development's (BDD) Given-When-Then construct, they leave the workshop having written small stories from their own backlog.

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Apiumhub

JULY 30, 2018

Agile Methodologies: Scrum ( Jira ). Experience in Test Driven Development and unit testing. Experience with some of the following languages: PHP, Kotlin, Node.js. Experience in Continuous Integration. Experience working with Docker. DevOps experience. Strong knowledge of SOLID.

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SCRUMstudy

MARCH 29, 2018

A suitable Agile method can be picked from compatible Agile methodologies such as Test Driven Development, Crystal, and Adaptive Software development. Agile can be tailor-made to suit business specifications and project requirements. However, it should never be thought that Agile is a free-for-all.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). At a minimum, your stakeholders are likely to include: technical leads, QA leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, QA engineers.

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James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

LeSS, which stands for “Large-Scale Scrum,” is one of the original Agile scaling approaches. Despite the name, it’s not a pure Scrum-based approach. Test-Driven Development. If you’re looking for a safe, well-tested approach to scaling Agile, start with LeSS. Collective Code Ownership.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. Engaged scrum masters are essential for long-term change (26:49). Scrum: Novice to Ninja: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

There are two major ways to discover opportunities for cross-skilling: Kanban/Scrum Team Board. Kanban/Scrum Team Board. Skills Matrices and Scrum/Kanban Team Boards will only get you to the point where you know there is a need for growth, and where. Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development).

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. It is possible to integrate ATDD training into a team's initial Scrum and/or SAFe training. If the team is in a company doing SAFe their Scrum Masters and RTEs can more easily work with them.

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. It is possible to integrate ATDD training into a team's initial Scrum and/or SAFe training. If the team is in a company doing SAFe their Scrum Masters and RTEs can more easily work with them.

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Silk and Spinach

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In many of them I see a familiar pattern: The managers and business analysts are sent on courses and sent to conferences and given books to read; most of them change their job title to things like Scrum Master or Product Owner; they create their plans using “stories” written on post-it notes, and they organise their projects into Sprints.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 9, 2019

jpg'; One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of Done is unique to Scrum.

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Codegiant

APRIL 14, 2020

Now, let’s check which Agile development methodology would be most suitable for your team: Different Agile Methodologies Scrum ?—?it’s It’s an iterative agile process that typically consists of three Scrum roles and time boxes. Also, in the Scrum project management, you have a Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Another popular approach is the facilitator-coach , often called a Scrum Master , 3 who leads from the sidelines by facilitating conversations and resolving organizational roadblocks. 3 The name “Scrum Master” originated in the popular “Scrum” method. 4 If you make the investments in this chapter, that is.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There are concepts like TDD (test-driven development) that establish that every developer should think about how they are going to test something, even before they start writing code. Keep in sync: The PO sync up meeting and the scrum of scrums are not only for the execution of the PI.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

QSM found 11% defect reduction and 58% schedule reduction on a Scrum team; 75% defect reduction and 53% schedule reduction on an XP team; and 75% defect reduction and 30% schedule reduction in a multi-team analysis of thousands of developers. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

Once you get past the sales pitches and confirmation biases, it doesn’t take much research to discover that agile and Scrum don’t have such a great track record. Question 1: Should you use Scrum or Continuous Delivery? Yet without a solid foundation in the technology that produces great systems, agile is pretty hollow.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team. Test Driven Development. They use test-driven development to write tests, implement code, refactor, and incrementally design and architect the software.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 5, 2018

jpg'; As we discussed in Specialists Are Overrated , developing cross-skills and T-Shaped" people in a team has many benefits for the team/organization itself, the customer, and the individual. Growing Knowledge Skills Matrices and Scrum/Kanban Team Boards will only get you to the point where you know there is a need for growth, and where.

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Xoriant

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Largely we found “Scrum and Acceptance Test-Driven” as the better model for solution projects whereas for Support “Kanban and “Acceptance Test-Driven” is preferred. We also changed the team roles and responsibilities to adopt the Agile Scrum methodology. Automate Regression Testing.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

This can be achieved using methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, DevOps etc, leading to responsive business prioritization and short delivery iterations. That’s because the significant gains in development speed and release frequency you need to be a responsive, agile organization have ramifications for the overall delivery quality.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. How are you measuring productivity?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Meanwhile Doug doesn't raise any impediments but notes that he has spent his third day trying to write Unit Tests for a previously completed class ( Ed: The team doesn't know about Test Driven Development yet). Anything that stops code from being written, tested, deployed and making money.

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LeanEssays

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

One of the things Scrum has contributed to the practice of software development is the idea that small autonomous teams perform much better than large project teams or single-discipline teams that work in sequence.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

In this case, a closer look at the event reveals that, although the team used test-driven development and pairing for production code, they didn’t apply that standard to their scripts. Searching for a “single, wringable neck,” in the misguided parlance of Scrum, just encourages deflection and finger-pointing.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

APRIL 21, 2014

The role of the ScrumMaster is to help build the high performing team through observing their relationships, helping them understand Scrum, improving their technical practices, improving their relationship with their product owner, and improving the organization theyre part of. The two new teams, Beta and Gamma, are struggling.

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

To counter sequential processes and the long integration and defect removal phase, agile software development practices focused on fast feedback cycles in these areas: Test-driven development: Start by writing tests (think of them as executable specifications) and then write the code to pass the tests.

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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. Because when you have a large environment, teams often form bottlenecks. By the late ’90s, these methods were attracting serious attention.

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