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Photo by Designecologist from Pexels I am convinced that the world needs more technical coaches. Practices like Refactoring and Test-Driven Development don’t just happen by themselves. It takes quite an investment in time and effort for most developers...
I’ve known the author for many years and actually did some remote pair programming with him in early 2020 which we published as a video. I’m confident Adrian is very skilled at both pair programming and working with distributed development teams. I was pleased...
Originally published on ProAgile's blog That was the question I posed on Twitter yesterday. I got a huge pile of answers, some of them surprised me! This article is my way of thanking everyone for sharing their ideas. You can see the whole picture in...
By Emily Bache There’s a frank discussion going on in the software industry at the moment about the words we use and the history behind them. Perhaps now is a good time to reconsider some of our terminology. For example, I’ve noticed we have several terms that...
A book for managers, about architecture Ruth Malan re-stated Conway’s law like this: “If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins”. As a technical leader, that really caught my...
In BDD you discover what software you should build through a collaborative process involving both software developers and business people. BDD also involves a lot of test automation and tools like Cucumber and SpecFlow. But what would happen if you used an Approval testing tool instead? Would that still be BDD?
It’s Test-Driven Development with a twist! Developing new functionality with approval tests requires some slightly different steps, but if you’re a visual thinker like me you might just prefer it. In this blog post I’ll explain how it works.
How your team actually writes its code is very important if your organization is trying to build products in an Agile way. This post considers the risks associated with insufficiently Agile coding practices and explains how to identify them before they become major...
Note: this article was originally published on ProAgile's blog I only recently joined ProAgile and I feel we’ve got off to a great start. Last week my colleague Fredrik Wendt and I facilitated and hosted a Code Retreat event for a diverse group of software crafters...
Note: this article was first published on ProAgile's blog. I’ve just joined ProAgile, and it feels great. I’ve known many of the other coaches for some years, and admire their work. My background is as a software developer, and I specialize in the technical side of...
Hi – I´m Emily!
I am a consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at technical practices like Test-Driven Development, Refactoring and Incremental Design. I also write books and publish videos. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK.
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