In this after "match interview", we had the pleasure of discussing with Mark Shead, from Xeric Corporation, who just gave his keynote on Courageous Software Delivery.  

About Mark 

He is the president of Xeric Corporation where he helps organizations increase their return on investment in software development. He has worked extensively as a coach implementing Agile development and deployment practices at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Banks in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Dallas. He specializes in helping teams build development/deployment pipelines in organizations with legacy change management policies and turning six-month deployment cycles into something measured in hours.  Mark is also the creator of popular Agile cartoons on YouTube, a speaker at various Agile and technology conferences, and a facilitator of teambuilding exercises that help organizations learn to work together more effectively.  

Here are a few of the topics that we covered:  

TDD => https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/tdd

Benefits of TDD => https://dzone.com/articles/20-benefits-of-test-driven-development 

Pair Programming => https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/pairing/Benefits of Pairing https://stackify.com/pair-programming-advantages/ 

Differences between BDD and ATDD  => https://www.hindsightsoftware.com/blog/atdd-vs-bdd 

BDD, ATDD and TDD: the communicating feedback loops  => https://www.hindsightsoftware.com/blog/tdd-vs-bdd 

CI/CD/CD  => https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/principles/continuous-integration-vs-delivery-vs-deployment 

Technical Debt  => https://dzone.com/articles/what-technical-debt-it-and-how-to-calculate-it 

Feature Toggle (enables "testing in production")  => https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureToggle.html 

Dark Launching (enables "testing in production")  => https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DarkLaunching.html 

Developping in small batches (to minimize risks and complexity)  => https://cloud.google.com/solutions/devops/devops-process-working-in-small-batches

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You can follow Mark on : Linkedin: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markshead/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcSqKNo-_hBeknZEhsIRngHis website (blog): https://blog.markshead.com/

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