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Feb 26, 2021
Great Course with a humble and great Trainer
Alex is a great trainer! He applied a very interactive and informative structure to both days. Also learning from the different stories Alex could tell from his daily business was invaluable. Looking forward to more courses with Alex.
Nils
Feb 25, 2021
PSPOI
PSPOI
Dear Alex, dear Scrum.org-Team,
thanks for the great virtual experience. I have learned a lot.
I have an aspect that I would like to share with you. Maybe it is helpful:
The new Scrum Guide contains many new or changed terms and concepts. One thing that would help any student in this exciting transition would be more explicit references and end notes to these changes under blog posts, in the course, and other online materials that are not updated so far. Also reading the recommended books (I read Professional Product Owner) has challenges, too.
Some minor issues: I found some dead links on blog posts:
https : // burozeven.nl/ 2017/08/08/the-go-product-roadmap/
https : // burozeven.nl/ 2017/11/15/70-tips-for-product-owners-part-3-business-value/
(I put some space in the links that they are not clickable)
Warmest greetings!
Carolin
Carolin
Feb 20, 2021
PSM I training
Alex is a very knowledgeable trainer and the course was very engaging, with lots of exercises and topics that really made me ask myself what would I do in that situation. I have really enjoyed the training and it gave me a new perspective on things and how they should be properly done. Thank you!
Irina Cirjan
Feb 20, 2021
Great training
Very knowledgeable trainer, diverse support materials which vary from paper to video (in an online setting) and very well facilitated. I would add a space, in each day, for open discussion on real life, participant driven experiences and questions. Great work!
Vanessa Silva
Feb 14, 2021
Great class and teacher
Great class and teacher. Good time management, fantastic collaboration and group exercises.
YN
Feb 8, 2021
The class was fun and really…
The class was fun and really interactive. I had a lot of new knowledge, thank you
Ajeng Putri Lenggogeni
Feb 2, 2021
I completed Applying Professional Scrum…
I completed Applying Professional Scrum with Alex Brown in a virtual training. Alex is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable trainer.
2 intense and challenging days having only theoretical knowledge of Scrum and had to immediately participate in a sprint. It was awesome! I enjoyed this way of training as you learn quickly.
I highly recommend the training and it would have been excellent if it was face to face (which was not possible due to the COVID-19 situation).
R. Gerrese
Jan 31, 2021
Great Course
This was one of the most interesting and applicable courses I have attended. The course was highly interactive and encouraged us to answer difficult questions without being spoon-fed answers. Alex delivered the course brilliantly and made the most of the online environment where it can be difficult to keep people engaged for a full day.
Daniel Walker
Jan 30, 2021
I found the class structured and well delivered
I found the class was very well structured. Alex used some great tools to help go through the material in a collaborative manner. Thats difficult to do in the new lockdown world, but was an effective way to cover the material.
Kashif Ahmad
Jan 23, 2021
One of the best online courses I have ever taken
One of the best online courses I have ever taken. Alex is an excellent facilitator and teacher allowing time for interaction and discussion whilst bringing course material to life with actual experiences and examples. Many thanks, it was a real positive experience, I learned a lot from yourself and from my fellow class mates.
EdM
Jan 21, 2021
Very insightful course greatly delivered by Alex Brown
The course content was very insightful and Alex made it very practical with plenty of real life examples. Discussions and experience sharing with other participants was also a big take away as everyone was very passionate expressing their own challenges. That was my second course with Alex and I strongly recommend him as a trainer!
Fabrice Guillen
Jan 8, 2021
Leadership towards agile maturity
A lot of usefull aspects and tools around agile leadership and team maturity in a very interactive and collaborative virtual course.
Manuel
Dec 15, 2020
A great course, highly recommend
A great course, professionally prepared, hands-on, very engaging and full of real life examples.
Alex is a wonderful trainer and every minute of the course was full of practical knowledge which I can implement in my daily work. Not only was Scrum presented in a lot of detail, but also many complementary DevOps practices which make agile collaboration and continuous delivery so much easier. Topics of code design/architecture and quality were also mentioned in a lot of detail.
During the course we worked on an example project and had a few full very short sprints to get a feel of how Scrum can be applied in practice.
Highly recommend this course both to people who are new to Scrum as well as developers experienced in agile practices who want to clear some things up for themselves.
Lukasz Kalnik
Nov 30, 2020
The course was good
The course was good, the facilitator was very considerate, it was a good overview. It will be helpful to break it down in four days instead of two to ensure better learning process. All the best.
Sameera Baba
Nov 17, 2020
Brilliantly interactive and engaging
Chris and Alex were brilliant at helping our team work together to better understand scrum. The course was really interactive and we got some really good results from our team. We were able to finish the course being confident in our ability to improve how we work.
Mac Windle
Nov 10, 2020
Nice and interactive virtual training
Nice and interactive virtual training. I would definitely recommend.
Dan Flaviu Joia
Nov 9, 2020
Awesome course, from amazing people!
Chris and Alex couldn't have been better, they were amazing from start to finish. Would highly recommend to anyone. It was brilliant!
Nicholas Stewart
Nov 4, 2020
Great structure
Great structure. Alex is very helpful and motivated and you get allot of cases and questions that are helpful to understand the theory
Saad Almutalibi
Oct 19, 2020
Really insightful course (from principles to practices)
The course was great!
- It changed my perspective on Kanban
- I've added several practices to my toolbox
- I'm energized and can't wait to put that stuff in practice
A good balance between theory and practice.
Jowen Mei
Oct 18, 2020
Great course!
Great course! Alex is a truly passionate, knowledgeable and great trainer. The course is very interactive which makes it for an even greater learning experience. Thanks again for these two days Alex!
Fabrice Guillen
Oct 15, 2020
Great classes
Great classes, very dynamic and interactive. Alex is a really good trainer, he is very knowledgeable and passionate about Scrum. I am really glad I took the training with him.
Maria Escandell Espindola
Sep 27, 2020
Great course for managers who would like to work with agile teams
How to lead agile team is difficult enough, be sure you have a basic understading of agile / scrum teams before you start this course:-)
Olivier Verhoek
Jul 21, 2020
Excellent course taught by Alex
Excellent course taught by Alex. Very immersive, loads of personal experiences which helped understand the role of Scrum Master even better.
My recommendations!
Henrik Hovhannisyan
Jul 20, 2020
Excellent PSF Course
I really enjoyed the course and it has inspired me to investigate more about Agile principles, especially Scrum. Alex did a great job of making us all feel at ease regardless of whether we had any Scrum experience or not. The class was really interactive and would recommend to anyone interested in Scrum to take part in. Debating which one to do next!
Richard
Jul 17, 2020
Mr.Alex is an awesome trainer.
Mr.Alex is an awesome trainer.
Gyurel Chekich
Jul 11, 2020
The PSM course
The PSM course, held online due to COVID-19, was really well organized. Alex was great! He offered very interesting case studies and excercises, and diligently answered all our numerous questions. We were a group of 8, which made it ideal to keep us all engaged and give us the chance to share our experiences and exchange ideas.
Carlotta Greco
Jul 1, 2020
Excellent virtual class
great class! very interactive and good mix of theory and practice. Alex was very accommodating and adapted the course to the needs of the class.
Mira PERRIER
Jun 29, 2020
Professional Scrum Master
Really enjoyed the course, Alex is a great teacher/coach and his passion for scrum was clear. He has a very inclusive approach and a very deep knowledge of scrum which ensured all members got the best learning/value from the course.
John Berwick
Jun 24, 2020
Great learning experience
The class was great. Very well organized, and the instructor used various tools and media to make this virtual session as lively as possible.
The pace was a bit fast for a "beginners class", but feedback was warmly welcomed.
Anonymous
Oct 14, 2019
Very informative
Very informative, a good introduction to Scrum and it's principals using interactive activities.
Darren
Apr 18, 2019
Great course
Great course. Went into enough detail but still concise. Plenty of opportunity for getting a bit off topic and discussing implementation and issues within our own teams.
Simon Frazer
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Alex has over 20 years of consulting experience in delivering IT products within the financial sector as a Developer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, and Software Craftsmanship Coach. He is passionate about building high performing organisations and teams, growing an Agile culture, and enabling people to be more efficient and effective in delivering value.
Early on as a developer, Alex saw the benefits of scrum but also the importance of technical excellence, to enable a team to iteratively deliver a high quality and maintainable product at a sustainable pace. Since 2008, you can say Alex has been there, done it, and has the scars to prove it.
To date Alex focus is helping organisations transform to achieve a sustained competitive advantage by adopting agile principles and practices, and a culture of continuous improvement across all levels from the executive leaders to the delivery teams. With a real passion in helping others achieve the technical excellence mindset & principles needed and explore & establish the complementary practices that could help them.
As a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, Alex wants to help others share his passion for Scrum, the benefits it can bring, and gain a real insight into how they can use the Scrum Framework in the real world to really get stuff done!
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Feb 26, 2021
Great Course with a humble and great Trainer
Alex is a great trainer! He applied a very interactive and informative structure to both days. Also learning from the different stories Alex could tell from his daily business was invaluable. Looking forward to more courses with Alex.
Nils
Feb 25, 2021
PSPOI
PSPOI
Dear Alex, dear Scrum.org-Team,
thanks for the great virtual experience. I have learned a lot.
I have an aspect that I would like to share with you. Maybe it is helpful:
The new Scrum Guide contains many new or changed terms and concepts. One thing that would help any student in this exciting transition would be more explicit references and end notes to these changes under blog posts, in the course, and other online materials that are not updated so far. Also reading the recommended books (I read Professional Product Owner) has challenges, too.
Some minor issues: I found some dead links on blog posts:
https : // burozeven.nl/ 2017/08/08/the-go-product-roadmap/
https : // burozeven.nl/ 2017/11/15/70-tips-for-product-owners-part-3-business-value/
(I put some space in the links that they are not clickable)
Warmest greetings!
Carolin
Carolin
Feb 20, 2021
PSM I training
Alex is a very knowledgeable trainer and the course was very engaging, with lots of exercises and topics that really made me ask myself what would I do in that situation. I have really enjoyed the training and it gave me a new perspective on things and how they should be properly done. Thank you!
Irina Cirjan
Feb 20, 2021
Great training
Very knowledgeable trainer, diverse support materials which vary from paper to video (in an online setting) and very well facilitated. I would add a space, in each day, for open discussion on real life, participant driven experiences and questions. Great work!
Vanessa Silva
Feb 14, 2021
Great class and teacher
Great class and teacher. Good time management, fantastic collaboration and group exercises.
YN
Feb 8, 2021
The class was fun and really…
The class was fun and really interactive. I had a lot of new knowledge, thank you
Ajeng Putri Lenggogeni
Feb 2, 2021
I completed Applying Professional Scrum…
I completed Applying Professional Scrum with Alex Brown in a virtual training. Alex is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable trainer.
2 intense and challenging days having only theoretical knowledge of Scrum and had to immediately participate in a sprint. It was awesome! I enjoyed this way of training as you learn quickly.
I highly recommend the training and it would have been excellent if it was face to face (which was not possible due to the COVID-19 situation).
R. Gerrese
Jan 31, 2021
Great Course
This was one of the most interesting and applicable courses I have attended. The course was highly interactive and encouraged us to answer difficult questions without being spoon-fed answers. Alex delivered the course brilliantly and made the most of the online environment where it can be difficult to keep people engaged for a full day.
Daniel Walker
Jan 30, 2021
I found the class structured and well delivered
I found the class was very well structured. Alex used some great tools to help go through the material in a collaborative manner. Thats difficult to do in the new lockdown world, but was an effective way to cover the material.
Kashif Ahmad
Jan 23, 2021
One of the best online courses I have ever taken
One of the best online courses I have ever taken. Alex is an excellent facilitator and teacher allowing time for interaction and discussion whilst bringing course material to life with actual experiences and examples. Many thanks, it was a real positive experience, I learned a lot from yourself and from my fellow class mates.
EdM
Jan 21, 2021
Very insightful course greatly delivered by Alex Brown
The course content was very insightful and Alex made it very practical with plenty of real life examples. Discussions and experience sharing with other participants was also a big take away as everyone was very passionate expressing their own challenges. That was my second course with Alex and I strongly recommend him as a trainer!
Fabrice Guillen
Jan 8, 2021
Leadership towards agile maturity
A lot of usefull aspects and tools around agile leadership and team maturity in a very interactive and collaborative virtual course.
Manuel
Dec 15, 2020
A great course, highly recommend
A great course, professionally prepared, hands-on, very engaging and full of real life examples.
Alex is a wonderful trainer and every minute of the course was full of practical knowledge which I can implement in my daily work. Not only was Scrum presented in a lot of detail, but also many complementary DevOps practices which make agile collaboration and continuous delivery so much easier. Topics of code design/architecture and quality were also mentioned in a lot of detail.
During the course we worked on an example project and had a few full very short sprints to get a feel of how Scrum can be applied in practice.
Highly recommend this course both to people who are new to Scrum as well as developers experienced in agile practices who want to clear some things up for themselves.
Lukasz Kalnik
Nov 30, 2020
The course was good
The course was good, the facilitator was very considerate, it was a good overview. It will be helpful to break it down in four days instead of two to ensure better learning process. All the best.
Sameera Baba
Nov 17, 2020
Brilliantly interactive and engaging
Chris and Alex were brilliant at helping our team work together to better understand scrum. The course was really interactive and we got some really good results from our team. We were able to finish the course being confident in our ability to improve how we work.
Mac Windle
Nov 10, 2020
Nice and interactive virtual training
Nice and interactive virtual training. I would definitely recommend.
Dan Flaviu Joia
Nov 9, 2020
Awesome course, from amazing people!
Chris and Alex couldn't have been better, they were amazing from start to finish. Would highly recommend to anyone. It was brilliant!
Nicholas Stewart
Nov 4, 2020
Great structure
Great structure. Alex is very helpful and motivated and you get allot of cases and questions that are helpful to understand the theory
Saad Almutalibi
Oct 19, 2020
Really insightful course (from principles to practices)
The course was great!
- It changed my perspective on Kanban
- I've added several practices to my toolbox
- I'm energized and can't wait to put that stuff in practice
A good balance between theory and practice.
Jowen Mei
Oct 18, 2020
Great course!
Great course! Alex is a truly passionate, knowledgeable and great trainer. The course is very interactive which makes it for an even greater learning experience. Thanks again for these two days Alex!
Fabrice Guillen
Oct 15, 2020
Great classes
Great classes, very dynamic and interactive. Alex is a really good trainer, he is very knowledgeable and passionate about Scrum. I am really glad I took the training with him.
Maria Escandell Espindola
Sep 27, 2020
Great course for managers who would like to work with agile teams
How to lead agile team is difficult enough, be sure you have a basic understading of agile / scrum teams before you start this course:-)
Olivier Verhoek
Jul 21, 2020
Excellent course taught by Alex
Excellent course taught by Alex. Very immersive, loads of personal experiences which helped understand the role of Scrum Master even better.
My recommendations!
Henrik Hovhannisyan
Jul 20, 2020
Excellent PSF Course
I really enjoyed the course and it has inspired me to investigate more about Agile principles, especially Scrum. Alex did a great job of making us all feel at ease regardless of whether we had any Scrum experience or not. The class was really interactive and would recommend to anyone interested in Scrum to take part in. Debating which one to do next!
Richard
Jul 17, 2020
Mr.Alex is an awesome trainer.
Mr.Alex is an awesome trainer.
Gyurel Chekich
Jul 11, 2020
The PSM course
The PSM course, held online due to COVID-19, was really well organized. Alex was great! He offered very interesting case studies and excercises, and diligently answered all our numerous questions. We were a group of 8, which made it ideal to keep us all engaged and give us the chance to share our experiences and exchange ideas.
Carlotta Greco
Jul 1, 2020
Excellent virtual class
great class! very interactive and good mix of theory and practice. Alex was very accommodating and adapted the course to the needs of the class.
Mira PERRIER
Jun 29, 2020
Professional Scrum Master
Really enjoyed the course, Alex is a great teacher/coach and his passion for scrum was clear. He has a very inclusive approach and a very deep knowledge of scrum which ensured all members got the best learning/value from the course.
John Berwick
Jun 24, 2020
Great learning experience
The class was great. Very well organized, and the instructor used various tools and media to make this virtual session as lively as possible.
The pace was a bit fast for a "beginners class", but feedback was warmly welcomed.
Anonymous
Oct 14, 2019
Very informative
Very informative, a good introduction to Scrum and it's principals using interactive activities.
Darren
Apr 18, 2019
Great course
Great course. Went into enough detail but still concise. Plenty of opportunity for getting a bit off topic and discussing implementation and issues within our own teams.
Simon Frazer
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Some may confuse the word “Foundation” in the name of the Professional Scrum Foundation course to mean simple or basic. But in truth this means it is a course for everybody to build a solid base of knowledge,
Aug 6, 2020
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As the name "Test First" suggests, you write a test first before the actual code and keep them running all the time. Well maybe not the second part explicitly. Yet what if I said to you that it actual means more than that?
Firstly it did originate from this simply meaning. When we hear the word “test”, a majority of us think in the traditional sense of checking (e.g validate the code). This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. If you’re not already aware, the way you think of testing within an agile approach is fundamentally different to the traditional one. But let us leave that for another day.
Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Are all these practices simply for writing tests first and automation? And what are the differences between all these practices, if any?
The name “Test First” has moved on from its original concept and has a broader meaning now. Over time it has evolved to incorporate the following
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Behavioural Driven Development (BDD)
Ubiquitous Language for acceptance scenarios & specifications e.g. Gherkin
It has moved to enable quality focus on both the product and design by enabling faster feedback loops on several different levels, than simply writing tests first before code.
The reason in 2011, Gojko Adzi introduce a different name to group these practices - “Specification by Example". With a redefined purpose statement "build the product right and building the right product". And the primary output being “living documentation” and collaboration and with automated tests being specified as the secondary output.
With people’s first exposure to Test First and the TDD and BDD practices there is a tendency to think it terms of traditionally testing. This can cause people to go further down the wrong rabbit hole and began automating their tests with an automation tool (e.g. Record and Play).
As with anything context is key, so I have found it useful to briefly explain the journey on how Test First and its associated practices have iteratively evolved to help people understand the meaning of Test First and understand each of the practices purpose, focus, differences, and benefits.
Test-First Programming (est 1999)
The term Test-First Programming (TP) was introduced by Kent Beck in 1999 with his book of “Extreme Programming (XP): Explained” and states to write unit tests before programming and keep all of the created tests running at all times. A year later, in 2000, Kent Beck published another book called “Test Driven Development by Example” and explains Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software process and not about writing tests before the code with one more important aspect – refactoring. The following is the sequence given in his book: -
Add a test
Run all tests and see if the new test fails
Write the code
Run Tests
Refactor Code
Repeat
This cycle tends to be referred to as Red-Green-Refactor cycle. But Kent, and others, found that writing test first had a tremendous positive effect on the software architecture and design of software too:
Testable
Decoupled
Reusable
Independently Deployable
Independently Developable
Independently Reasonable
This influence on software design and architecture became so important, beside the other positive effects, that Beck found it worthwhile to rename it from Test-First Programming to Test-Driven Development.
Test-Driven Development 2.0 (est 2004)
Test Driven Development moved slightly further, from Kent Beck’s original Red-Green-Refactor cycle, with Robert C Martin (aka Uncle Bob) and The Three Laws of Test-Driven Development.
You are not allowed to write any production code unless it is to make a failing unit test pass.
You are not allowed to write any more of a unit test than is sufficient to fail; and compilation failures are failures.
You are not allowed to write any more production code than is sufficient to pass the one failing unit test.
This is sometimes referred to as Test First with baby steps. Check out our Introduction to Test Driven Development video for more info.
Robert C. Martin went even further and focused on the 3rd Law. He discovered an approach called Transformation Priority Premise in that a simple transformation should be preferred. The approach facilitates the programmer doing the simplest possible thing for the purposes of Test-Driven Development by favouring the simpler transformation (from the top of the list) over those further down in the list.
({}–>nil) no code at all->code that employs nil
(nil->constant)
(constant->constant+) a simple constant to a more complex constant
(constant->scalar) replacing a constant with a variable or an argument
(statement->statements) adding more unconditional statements.
(unconditional->if) splitting the execution path
(scalar->array)
(array->container)
(statement->recursion)
(if->while)
(expression->function) replacing an expression with a function or algorithm
(variable->assignment) replacing the value of a variable.
He goes on to suggest that we should amend the Red-Green-Refactor cycle of TDD with the following provisions
When passing a test, prefer higher priority transformations.
When posing a test choose one that can be passed with higher priority transformations.
When an implementation seems to require a low priority transformation, backtrack to see if there is a simpler test to pass.
And states if you follow these rules correctly then you should find
As the test get more specific, the code gets more generic
Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004)
Behaviour Driven Development was developed by Dan North in response to help his colleagues to learn TDD. He found: -
“Behaviour” is a more useful word than “test” – people’s misunderstanding about TDD always came back the word “test”
Test method names should be a sentence and the word “test” can be stripped out
A simple sentence template keeps test method focused. The class test method should do something & only that thing
An expressive test name is helpful when a test fails
In 2003, Dan North created the JBehave framework to replace Junit to remove any reference to testing and replace a testing vocabulary around a behave one.
In 2004, the next discovery for Dan was the concept of business value and why we write software. He found that you could use his framework to help the team focus on feature behaviour and that missing requirement are behaviour too. Around this time Eric Evans also published his bestselling book Domain-Driven Design, where he describes the concept of modelling a system using a ubiquitous language based on business domain, so that the business vocabulary permeates right into the codebase. Dan and his colleagues used similar concept to come up defining a ubiquitous language for the analytics process itself, hence where the Given, When, Then for acceptance criteria came.
Since then many people have developed other BDD frameworks and then finally began framing BDD as a communication and collaboration framework for developers, QA and business in a software project. During the “Agile specification, BDD, and Testing eXchange” in November 2009 in London, Dan North gave the following description of BDD:
BDD is a second-generation, outside-in, pull-based, multiple-stakeholder, high automation, agile methodology. It describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the delivery of working, tested software that matters.
During an interview with Dan North at GOTO Conference in 2013, Liz Keogh defines BDD as:
It’s using examples to talk through how an application behaves. And having conversations about those examples
Since Dan North’s first java base BDD framework of JBehave, the leading BDD framework is Cucumber and reads executable specifications written in plain text that follows some base rules called Gherkin. It used by majority of languages & you can test about anything with it and build out test frameworks for your systems and products. It works well with other tools to enable testing of APIs, Browsers, and other system end points.
What about Acceptance Test Driven Development ?
Acceptance Test Driven Development or ATDD is where the entire team collaborates to define the acceptance criteria before implementation. It drives acceptance testing rather than unit testing by facilitating detailed readable description of system's function though proper examples and other necessary information. And with a focus on outside-in development approach. Sounds familiar?
Most of the time, BDD and ATDD are used interchangeably. The ATDD approach can be implemented using the Given-When-Then format and use BDD framework tools. But also we can use BDD frameworks for the TDD approach. Confused yet?
Personally we used ATDD for 2 years before becoming aware of the term BDD. When we first heard the term, it was confusing & why is it different to what we were doing. Perhaps because we already practicing Domain Driven Development, collaborating and using test framework with a Given-When-Then option. And the "Acceptance Tests" occurred at end to end tests but also at the component, integration and unit tests too.
Reading John Ferguson Smart's book "BDD in Action", would of cleared that confusion far quicker for us if it been around at the time. It would of helped us considerable especially the sections "Coding the BDD way" & "Taking BDD further". Highly recommend reading.
Summary
In essence, the approach has evolved to be all about the conversation first between the business and development team to build the right product, and the developed using an outside-in workflow to build the product right that’s highly automated.
Understand each of the practices focus, outputs and benefits and use them when suits your needs. For example, because is an indicator to be an outside-in workflow, doesn't mean you can't go from inside-out. And don't bias yourself to tools, I'm using BDD tool so doing BDD.
Personally I keep it simply and use the BDD term when approach is about the collaboration with all stakeholders (customer, developer, tester, etc) to build the right product and produce living documentation that's readable by everyone to describe what the system can do. TDD is about design and building the product right.
Hope this helps.
If you'd like to know more or how we can help you or your teams incorporate these practices then check out our Technical Agility services or contact us at alexbrown@bagile.co.uk
May 29, 2020
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