Quote of the Month March 2020 – Why Migrations Matter
Migrations matter because they are usually the only available avenue to make meaningful progress on technical debt.
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Software development quotes
Quote of the Month February 2020 – Self-Organizing and Empowerment
Healthy, high-performing teams decide how they are organized, how they work, and what tools and processes they use. To do this, they need to be held accountable for the value and quality of results they deliver, not micro-managed on how to get those results.
Quote of the Month January 2020 – What Should Be Built?
The reoccurring question for all Product Owners is: What should be built? It occurs in sprint planning: What should be built this sprint? It occurs in thinking about the near future: What should be built next? And it occurs when thinking further out: What should be built next year?
Quote of the Month December 2019 – The Golden Rules of TDD
The golden rules of Test-Driven Development (TDD) are: Don’t write source code until a test requires it Reference new classes, methods, variables etc in your test first, so the code won’t compile, and then fix it by declaring them Aim to have just one thing broken at a time if …
Quote of the Month November 2019 – Expecting High Performance
Expecting high performance does not mean that you demand it. Expecting high performance means that you simply know achieving it is more than possible, it is normal. Expecting high performance means that you believe the team can attain it, so you hold them, compassionately and firmly, to that expectation. By …
Quote of the Month October 2019 – Toxic Team Members
As Agile coaches, we do our best to determine root issues that may be causing team dysfunction and we try to resolve them by building trust with individuals and teams, guiding them to find answers that work for them, and helping to instill a positive culture. But sometimes an individual …