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Customers Don’t Pay Me to Write Tests: The Importance of Tests

As a technical agile coach and trainer, I help teams discover ways of testing. Some teams ignore tests altogether, while others write every possible test possible, wasting valuable time and not being...

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Towards a Culture of Leadership: 10 Things Real Leaders Do (and So Can You)

This article is adapted from a session proposal to Toronto Agile Conference 2018. Leadership occurs as conscious choice carried out as actions. Everyone has the ability to carry out acts leadership....

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IT Project Agility

Over the years I have done a number of talks for local chapters of the Project Management Institute.  They have covered a range of topics, but one common theme that comes up over and over is that Scrum...

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Equifax Data Breach: Lessons We Must Learn

I woke up this morning to the news that my personal data has been leaked by Equifax to…who knows!?  I was reminded of the following tweet: We think awful code is written by awful devs. But in reality,...

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Sabine’s Principle of Cumulative Quality Advantage

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramMany organizations won’t survive the next decade. Of those that survive, even they are likely to be extinct before...

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Refactoring: 4 Key Principles

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramI believe in refactoring.  The Agile Manifesto holds that The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge...

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Question: Product Owner and Technical Debt

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramQuestion from Meredith: As a product owner, what are the best ways to record technical debt and what are some...

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Agile Transformation Metrics

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramTL;DR When asked to provide metrics to assess “how well” an Agile transformation is going, re-frame the discussion...

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Design Debt & UX Debt is Technical Debt

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramHey! Let’s all work together, please. Technical Debt is a term which captures sloppy code, unmaintainable...

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All Team Quality Standards Should Be Part of the Definition of “Done”

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramThe other day a technology leader was asking questions as if he didn’t agree that things like pair programming and...

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Measurements Towards Continuous Delivery

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramI was asked yesterday what measurements a team could start to take to track their progress towards continuous...

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Announcing: The Real Agility Program

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramThe Real Agility Program is an Enterprise Agile change program to help organizations develop high-performance...

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Book List for Enterprise Agile Transformations

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramLeaders of Agile Transformations for the Enterprise need to have good sources of information, concepts and...

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Technical Push-Back – When is it Okay? When is it Bad?

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramWhenever I run a Certified Scrum Product Owner training session, one concept stands out as critical for...

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Awesome Explanation of Why Refactoring is NOT on the Product Backlog!!!

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramFrom the excellent Ron Jeffries, we have “Refactoring – Not on the Backlog!“ Learn more about our Scrum and Agile...

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The Rules of Scrum: I work with all the team members to expand the Definition...

The Definition of “Done” for a Scrum Team makes transparent how close the team’s work is coming to being shippable at the end of every Sprint.  Expanding the Definition of “Done” until the team is able...

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The Rules of Scrum: I am truthful about the internal quality of my product...

Scrum relies on the truthfulness of Team Members to allow for transparency about the internal quality of the product.  Internal quality is primarily related to the technical aspects of the product: its...

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Excellent little article – Technical Debt on your Balance Sheet

http://theagileexecutive.com/2009/09/29/technical-debt-on-your-balance-sheet/

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ANN: Agile Software Engineering Practices training by Isráfíl Consulting

Isráfíl Consulting is finally prepared for the first series of its Agile Software Engineering Practices training courses. This series is offered in partnership with Berteig Consulting who are...

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Finally – a solid metric for code quality.

Bob C. Martin (Uncle Bob to you and me) suggested, in his “quintessence” keynote at the Agile2008 conference that he had the perfect metric for code quality. Cyclomatic complexity and others were...

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