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  • What does a TDD look for in your Team?

    The technical team is the backbone of any tech-driven company, responsible for developing, maintaining, and innovating the company’s products and services. Even where a company does not sell a technical product of their own, but uses technology to manage its day-to-day business, the team plays a critical role to ensure business operations run smoothly. When…

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  • It’s all about the velocity isn’t it?

    It’s all about the velocity isn’t it?

    In a word, no. Velocity has been a core metric for Scrum based projects since its inception in 1995. Organisations like it because it’s a quantifiable figure, and one that can be measured over time. But it has problems, it has a lot of problems. “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare…

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  • Scrum: It’s supposed to be simple

    Scrum: It’s supposed to be simple

    How difficult have we made it? If you go to the agile manifesto website, the manifesto itself is articulated in clear and succinct terms. Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentationCustomer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan Just below this there’s another paragraph, which is often overlooked. That is, while there is…

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