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The Mindset Change for the Agile Tester
Janet Gregory discusses changing a tester’s mindset from “How can I break the software?” to “How can I help deliver excellent software?”, using examples and advising how to apply it on agile projects.
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Xanpan — a Personal Take on All Things Agile
Allan Kelly introduces Xanpan, a mixture of Kanban, XP, Lean and economics, focusing on teams not projects, allowing for planned and unplanned work within iterations and levels flow.
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From Agility to Anti-Fragility - A Practitioner's Guide
Nick Zhu & Sharan Karanth introduce a thought framework, based on Anti-Fragility, that can be used to describe, explain, and tune Agile, Lean as well as Continuous Delivery practices.
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Flow - an Agile Method for DevOps
Steve Arnold introduces Flow, an Agile method combining concepts from DevOps, Lean and Kanban, based on the idea that a requirement is worked on at each point of the software delivery pipeline.
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Theory of Constraints and Agility
Craig Strong and Daryn Holmes discuss applying the Theory of Constraints to software development, providing simulations and experience-based evidence to support the technique.
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Games for Learning about Conflict
Ellen Grove presents a model for conflict recognition and resolution using practical games that teams can use to help clarify differing viewpoints and seek resolution.
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Gamestorming the Retrospective
Astrid Claessen discusses retrospectives: the Derby and Larsen models, how gamestorming helps, and techniques explained through example by involving the audience.
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TDD and Refactoring with LEGO
Bryan Beecham teaches the TDD principles with LEGO bricks, making technical concepts easier to grasp by working with your own hands.
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Make Impacts, Not Software!
Gojko Adžić explains how to ask questions and how to see things in a different perspective in order to get more from the software development process.
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Lean Startup for Agile Product Management
Ángel Medinilla outlines the steps he recommends to make for product success: product vision, business model, test assumptions, iterative and incremental development, use metrics, and keep it simple.
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The Art of Builds - An In-depth Comparison of Build Tools
Hans Dockter discusses build systems from a declarative vs. imperative perspective, the importance of a rich execution model and problems with POM, providing examples from Gradle, Maven and Ant.
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The Evils of Multi-tasking and How Personal Kanban Can Help You
Sandy Mamoli explains how to avoid multi-tasking by using personal Kanban and other Agile practices applied at the individual level.