Product Agility Why You Should Give More of a Sh*t About Technical Excellence with Terry Yin
Poor technical excellence means terrible quality software products. This low quality makes teams hate their work, so they leave. With high staff churn, baking in that quality becomes a useless endeavour.
Or does it?
Terry Yin is an Agile Software Development expert, trained and coached by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde for many years.
So when he told me he has a training course that simulates a company with 100% attrition, and yet the quality remains high, I honestly thought that he, too, was high.
It turns out Terry has spent 10 years crafting what is now called "LeSS In Action", which does what sounds impossible. Creates teams that inherit a codebase, evolve it, release it and, guess what, maintain an incredibly high level of quality.
In this eye-opening episode, we explore:
🧨Can you tell if the way the software is being created supports the organisational goal?
🧨Does the PO have the right to ask everyone to work from Trunk to achieve CI? And why would they bother?
🧨What cant you tackle trunk-based development head-on with developers who don't or won't do it?
🧨Can you describe what a good organisational structure would be to help achieve tech excellence
🧨 What's better many teams working on many "high-priority epics" or many teams all working on one high-priority Epic.
🧨Does being a feature team mean only working on one type of feature?
🧨 Explore the course, which lets people see the organisational impact of great technical practices
🧨 What happens when you use Specification By Example (SBE) across people with different native languages?
Use the Product being created in Terry's courses - https://doughnut.odd-e.com/
Terry Yin - https://less.works/profiles/terry-yin-1 at www.less.works
LeSS In Action: Developer Practices - https://less.works/course-details/less-in-action-developer-practices-singapore-2982
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
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