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Inspect and Adapt#3 Developer Testing: The Legacy Code Dilemma, Modified Condition Decision Coverage, and Pairwise TestingConstrux Senior Fellow Melvin Perez-Cedano and host Mark Griffin dive into developer testing in response to a recent engagement with a telecommunications client trying to improve quality and productivity.As developers, we know that we’re going to make mistakes. The point of developer testing is to discover those mistakes as early as possible so that we can remove them when it is far more economical to do so. Test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development help here. Plus, writing test cases first helps us clarify our understanding of what we need to do before we write the co...2019-11-0535 minInspect and Adapt#1 Our Inaugural Episode: Gradients of Agreement, Forms of Waste, Real Kanban Boards, and Longer-Term Scrum PlanningConstrux Senior Fellow Melvin Perez-Cedano joins host Mark Griffin to discuss two recent engagements: a Lean-Agile Practices custom workshop with a team using proto-Kanban (a board without work-in-process limits) and a deep-dive Scrum class with experienced Scrum practitioners.In the first case, Melvin describes using a participatory decision-making technique to determine whether everyone on the team was in agreement about the team’s primary challenges. In this case, team members ranked the severity of the seven forms of waste (according to Lean) in their efforts, and Melvin and Mark review these forms of waste. Melvin then describes gu...2019-11-0535 min