James Shore leads organizations in scaling software development, most recently for OpenSesame, where he is Vice President of Engineering. He is the author of the Agile how-to guide, The Art of Agile Development, co-creator of the Agile Fluency® Model, and a recipient of the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice. His writing and screencasts may be found online at jamesshore.com. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children.
How can multiple teams work together on a single product? The common wisdom is to carefully align teams and responsibilities to create autonomous teams. But, invariably, this approach eventually runs into cross-team bottlenecks, challenges aligning responsibilities to teams, and difficulties creating cross-functional teams.Fluid Scaling Technology, or FaST, is an innovative new approach that solve...
Programmers need automated tests to avoid wasting huge amounts of time manually checking and fixing code. But automated tests also tend to waste a huge amount of time:Flaky tests fail randomly.End-to-end tests run slowly.Mock-heavy tests can be hard to understand, lock in implementation, or only test themselves.People use design techniques such as Hexagonal Architecture to reduce these problems, b...