Jared Wooten

Technical Coach | Extreme Programmer

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Fail Faster—Iterate Faster

March 20, 2020 by Jared Wooten

The spirit of the phrase, "Fail faster" is simple: In order to find success, you need to get through the necessary failures quickly. Getting stuck on a failure, or giving up after a failure means you've stopped actively failing, which means you can't ever hope to succeed.

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March 20, 2020 /Jared Wooten
agile, values, principles, extreme programming, scrum, iterations, failure, continuous improvement, continuous learning
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Do You Even Pair, Bro?

March 13, 2020 by Jared Wooten

That team was the most high-performing team I’ve ever been on… We saw many other benefits, but the bottom line for the business is that we built valuable software much faster.

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March 13, 2020 /Jared Wooten
pair programming, AgileTeam, continuous improvement, debate culture, extreme programming
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Collective Learning

March 09, 2020 by Jared Wooten

In those fleeting moments where engineers sit together to solve a problem collectively, we build trust, share wisdom, and debate ideas until they are better than any one of us could have come up with on our own.

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March 09, 2020 /Jared Wooten
continuous learning, continuous improvement, incentive alignment, yoda, AgileTeam
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On Agile Values

March 05, 2020 by Jared Wooten

After several years in the software industry, I came to believe that one can live values through their work just as much as through their personal life, and the congruence of each was necessary. A dishonest person at the office is a dishonest person at home, but the corollary is true as well.

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March 05, 2020 /Jared Wooten
Agile, values, continuous improvement, philosophy
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