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Succeeding with Agile
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Succeeding with Agile

by Mike Cohn
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Improving Technical Practices Is Not Optional

The technical practices described in this chapter are ones I would expect to see in use by a top-performing team. Of course, there is room to argue that these practices may not be necessary 100% of the time on your application. All of the practices, though, are ones that members of a good Scrum team should be experienced with. Continuous integration is merely the natural extension of a nightly build, which is a bare minimum for a team to be agile. Skill at refactoring and a mindset of collective ownership can be established over time with any team. Practices such as pair programming and test-driven development lead to higher quality code, which is a goal of every Scrum team.

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