Steve Neiderhauser

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Certified Agile Coach

Last week I competed Lyssa Adkins Coaching Agile Teams class. In addition to certifying me as an Agile Coach the training included the following:

• Mentoring the Agile roles
• Starting up Great Teams
• Creating the environment for high performance teams

The class was full of examples and techniques for creating high performance teams. And that's the real goal of Agile, isn't it.

 

Unit Testing Rules

Michael Feathers provides these unit testing rules. 

A test is not a unit test if:

• It talks to the database
• It touches the file system.
• You have to do special things to your environment to run it.

Read the blog post to see the other two rules.

High Performing Team

Lyssa Adkins created the high-performance tree to help teams reach up and pluck the fruit of high performance.

Infoq shares the chapter from her book where she paints a picture for the high performance tree.

What are the roots of the tree?

• Commitment 
• Openness
• Respect
• Focus
• Courage

How is courage defined? Have the courage to commit, to act, to be open, and to expect respect (Schwaber and Beedle 2001).