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Do you want to know a trick to increase your team’s velocity?
Now that I have your attention I want to tell you that tricks don’t work. I’ve seen people play tricks and sacri…
David Bernstein
David Bernstein has coached and trained more than 10,000 professional software developers from several Fortune 500 companies in the course of his 30-year career. His book, Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software (http://BeyondLegacyCode.com), covers core technical practices for developing software. A longtime special consultant to IBM, David trained software engineers around the world, giving them the skills to write the next generation of applications and operating systems. He is the creator of a wholesale bank-accounting software program that has become the de facto standard across the globe, as well as econometric software used to invest trillions of dollars. Over the past two decades, David has coached and trained thousands of developers at Microsoft, Yahoo, Vanguard, and dozens of other companies in Agile development practices. David is the founder of To Be Agile, a Registered Education Provider for the Scrum Alliance, and trains Certified Scrum Developers in Scrum and XP development practices. To see a list of public classes offered by To Be Agile, go to http://ToBeAgile.com/training. You can contact David Bernstein directly by visiting his website, http://ToBeAgile.com. David’s blog can be found at http://ToBeAgile.com/blog. You can follow David on Twitter under his account @ToBeAgile (http://www.twitter.com/ToBeAgile).
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I was talking to some friends at Agile2016 about which they thought was more effective, pair programming done well or mob programming done well, but we ended up deciding that …
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Integration is one of the most painful parts of a traditional software development process. After the system is designed and coded it gets integrated together in a Waterfall p…
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A large part of the success of the lean manufacturing movement was its call to eliminate waste. Deming introduced the concept that waste in manufacturing came from excessive i…
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“Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility,” is one of the principles of the Agile Manifesto. In retrospect, at their ten-year reunion, at …
Event Sessions
A central benefit of doing test-first development is getting a suite of behavioral tests to regress code and support refactoring efforts. But when doing test-first development…
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Test-driven development is a core practice of Extreme Programming (XP) and the “secret sauce” for some teams, enabling them to rapidly build quality code. But for other teams …
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These five development practices are core to Extreme Programming (XP):
automating the build for continuously integrating software as it is written,
collaborating with …
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Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software
We’re losing tens of billions of dollars a year on broken software, and great new ideas such as agile developme…
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