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I’m lead instructor, coach, and founder of Agile Institute. I have been a professional in the software development industry since 1986. Since 2002 I’ve been designing and teaching courses and workshops on a variety of Agile and software-development related topics, including. Essential Agile Principles and Practices. And the freshly updated. Essential Agile Engineering Skills. Which is also our Scrum Alliance. I’m an active writer and speaker on all things Agile. ( My blog. Today, and together we will emp...
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George Dinwiddie's blog. AYE 2008 – Remembering Your Resources When Stressed. Monday, November 10, 2008. On last Monday afternoon, I attended the session,. Remembering Your Resources When Stressed: The Self Esteem Toolkit. Filed in Tools and Techniques. A story about statistics. Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Filed in Individuals and Interactions. Studying patterns for Fearless Change. Tuesday, February 6, 2007. Don Gray got me started, with his posting of 3×5 notecards. By Mary Lynn Manns. I agree with him tha...
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George Dinwiddie's blog » Customer Collaboration
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George Dinwiddie's blog. Estimating in Comparison to Past Experience. Saturday, December 12, 2015. The simplest method of estimation is to compare the anticipated work to past experience. And we all have experience that we can use. The big question is how relevant is that experience. A secondary question is how clearly do we remember that experience. Filed in Customer Collaboration. Wednesday, September 2, 2015. Given the stated need, however, I would reframe the call for an estimate from When will this ...
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Each of Agile Institute’s. Designed to deliver the key knowledge and experience necessary to put these practices into effect, truly and immediately, within software development organizations. Taught by an instructor with actual long-term production experience and expertise in the described topics and practices. Updated to reflect the latest knowledge, technologies, and pragmatic experiences available to the software development community. Delivered using Sharon Bowman’s. Training from the Back of the Room.
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We’ve recently partnered with Senex Rex whenever and wherever large-scale Agile transformation is occurring. Dan Greening and his team are some of the finest strategic, high-level coaches I’ve ever worked with, and they’re experts at crafting metrics and measures in order to help leaders steer a clear and successful path towards industry mastery. Lars Thorup, founder of ZeaLake, is the only person besides Rob Myers who is authorized to teach Agile Institute’s flagship course,. Innovation Games provides &...
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8221; — Kevin H. 8221; — Eirik A. 8220;I used my learnings from the TDD class on a medium-sized project […] Once done, I had code that was smaller, easier to understand and maintain, and had an excellent set of unit tests that confirmed it worked as desired.” — Jeffrey S. 8220;I can apply new skills learned here to start improving our code right away.”. Excellent workshop clearly lays the foundation for TDD practices that you can easily apply to your day-to-day coding. 8221; — Damien F. 8220;I really enj...
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George Dinwiddie's blog » ATDD
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George Dinwiddie's blog. Thursday, November 1, 2012. And they run into typical problems. Sometimes the design doesn’t fit the problem well, and patches are needed because there isn’t time to go back to design. The testers get squeezed for time at the end of the iteration. And no one knows how to accommodate the rework when a problem is found. More patches are added, because there isn’t time to redesign. And the next iteration starts the cycle over again. Filed in Individuals and Interactions. Context ...
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George Dinwiddie's blog » Architect
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George Dinwiddie's blog. Monday, January 9, 2012. I see many discussions get heated or go in circles when the topic is “design.” In the field of software development, what is design? Filed in Tools and Techniques. The role of architect. Friday, June 26, 2009. Thanks to a pointer from Kent Beck, I’ve just read Alan Keefer’s post, Taking Responsibility. This is probably the best description I’ve ever read of the role that a software or system architect should take. Filed in Individuals and Interactions.
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