Jared Wooten

Technical Coach | Extreme Programmer

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Three XP Practices Your Team Already Does

April 28, 2021 by Jared Wooten

If you have heard of XP, you probably think of Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming, two of the most challenging XP practices both in ideology and in execution. You may not know it, but even if you have never even attempted these two contentious practices, your software team is probably already doing several of the other practices. Here are the top three I suspect you are already doing.

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April 28, 2021 /Jared Wooten
extreme programming, continuous integration, informative workspace, user stories, scrum, test-driven development, pair programming, whole team, weekly cycle, quarterly cycle, agileteam
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I Love to Disagree

March 25, 2020 by Jared Wooten

I have incredible respect for the individuals on my last team, so I became actively excited when the opportunity arose to disagree. I knew my teammates would listen to and try to clarify my ideas, and I would afford them the same dignity. The result of such a debate rarely ended in us agreeing on my or anyone's idea as it was originally presented. The process of clarification and debate would polish each idea until one was clearly the best idea given what we presently knew.

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March 25, 2020 /Jared Wooten
extreme programming, agileteam, respect, diversity, whole team, debate culture, get it right, psychological safety, trust
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