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The Agile Developer's Handbook

You're reading from   The Agile Developer's Handbook Get more value from your software development: get the best out of the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280205
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Flewelling Paul Flewelling
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto FREE CHAPTER 2. Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto 3. Introducing Scrum to your Software Team 4. Gathering Agile User Requirements 5. Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs 6. Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver 7. Software Technical Practices are the Foundation of Incremental Software Delivery 8. Tightening Feedback Loops in the Software Development Life Cycle 9. Seeking Value – How to Deliver Better Software Sooner 10. Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery 11. Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility 12. Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery 13. The Ultimate Software Team Member 14. Moving Beyond Isolated Agile Teams 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Mob programming

We've all had those moments when we need a group assessment of a problem to find a solution. As the saying goes, two minds are better than one. In the case of mob programming, it's all the minds of the team are better than one.

When a team at Hunter Industries faced some significant enhancements on one of their systems, their lead, Woody Zuill, suggested that they assess the state of the code as a group. He figured that diving into a large code base was going to be challenging, and if done individually, would likely result in not everyone seeing the same thing or being on the same page at the end of it.

He booked out a meeting room for the whole team, and they meticulously studied the code together, calling and pointing things out as they spotted them. The team who had spent some of their time in the past few months improving their skills, learning together...

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