Introducing New Technical Practices
One final decision facing change agents, ScrumMasters, and new Scrum team members themselves is how soon the team should adopt new technical practices. One school of thought is that everything should start with the technical practices. If a team is using the right technical practices—simple design, automated testing, pair programming, refactoring, and so on—then agility will be the natural result.
The alternative view is that a team should be left alone longer and given time to discover the technical practices that work best in its environment. ScrumMasters, managers, and coaches may eventually nudge a team toward trying different practices. “Would this have happened if we had more automated tests?” a Scrum-Master ...
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