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Kevin Callahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-callahan-mspod/ Kevin on Twitter: @changesteward Kevin’s company is Interaction Agility: https://www.interactionagility.com Mentioned in this episode: Principles for Designers When shared across teams, the designer plans for near 70% utilization, 30% slack time. Deliver insight rather than artifacts. A designer has empathy for end user so the result is something the market wants AND […]

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Kevin Callahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-callahan-mspod/ Kevin on Twitter: @changesteward Kevin’s company is Interaction Agility: https://www.interactionagility.com Kevin Callahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-callahan-mspod/ Kevin on Twitter: @changesteward Kevin’s company is Interaction Agility: https://www.interactionagility.com Mentioned in this episode: Balsamic rapid prototyping software: https://balsamiq.com Real Options theory: An enjoyable illustration of options theory is the graphic business novel COMMITMENT: https://www.amazon.com/Commitment-Novel-about-Managing-Project/dp/9462410038 An article about Real […]

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Kevin Callahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-callahan-mspod/ Kevin on Twitter: @changesteward Kevin’s company is Interaction Agility: https://www.interactionagility.com FIND ALL THE EPISODES FOR THIS SERIES AT THE SERIES PAGE.

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Tools mentioned in this episode: Dred : https://dredd.org/en/latest/ Tools mentioned in this series: Montebank for testing APIs via over the wire test doubles: http://www.mbtest.org/docs/api/overview Jargon: Virtual Service – this is a network endpoint that is a mock up of a real service, however it is simple, fast to launch, and can be setup and controlled […]

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Mentioned in the episode: Montebank for testing APIs via over the wire test doubles: http://www.mbtest.org/docs/api/overview Jargon: Virtual Service – this is a network endpoint that is a mock up of a real service, however it is simple, fast to launch, and can be setup and controlled from test automation code. Provider – the service that […]

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Jargon: Virtual Service – this is a network endpoint that is a mock up of a real service, however it is simple, fast to launch, and can be setup and controlled from test automation code. Provider – the service that is creating information Consumer – the client that is consuming information from a Provider. The […]

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Jargon: Virtual Service – this is a network endpoint that is a mock up of a real service, however it is simple, fast to launch, and can be setup and controlled from test automation code. Provider – the service that is creating information Consumer – the client that is consuming information from a Provider. The […]

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Jargon: Static Mock – this is a simple mock object, also referred to as a stub. Virtual Service – this is a network endpoint that is a mock up of a real service, however it is simple, fast to launch, and can be setup and controlled from test automation code. Provider – the service that […]

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Bryan Finster is a software engineer who leads a DevOps Dojo a large enterprise. You can contact him on Twitter: @BryanFinster or on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-finster/ Bryan writes on Medium about all things DevOps: https://medium.com/@bdfinst Contract Testing, per Martin Fowler https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ContractTest.html Integration testing per Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntegrationTest.html FIND ALL THE EPISODES FOR THIS SERIES AT THE SERIES […]

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Here is Geof Ellingham’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geofellingham/ The paper we are discussing, Geof’s paper, is here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/human-centric-agility-coaching-geof-ellingham/?trackingId= You can find Geof’s other work at these places: https://www.geofellingham.com/ and https://www.humancentricagility.org/ Leadership Agility®360 https://www.cambriaconsulting.com/leadership-agility-360/

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