15 Feb 2019 James Shore/Calendar I’ll be at the Seattle Software Crafters Meetup on April 25th talking about test-driven development and testing without mocks. This is a hands-on, free event. Don't miss it! TDD Without Mocks Are your tests slow and brittle? Do you get a sinking feeling when you need to refactor? Do you worry your unit tests aren’t actually testing anything important? If so, you could benefit from writing tests that don’t use mock objects. In this session, we’ll do it live. [...]

When deciding how to invest in your product, you need to take into account the risks that your investments will not return the outcomes you desire. One class of risks is business risk,  and in product management we can influence the business risk of invalid intentionality – what I could call “building the wrong thing.” … Continue reading Cause & Effect and Product Risk → [...]

01 Feb 2019 James Shore/Blog If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. It's worse than a useless statistic; it will actively lead you astray. What should you do instead? That depends on what you want to accomplish. To improve code and test practices If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect [...]

The Mega-Guide to Trends in 2019 is here: Trends in 2019 Each year, I like to take a balcony view of what’s going on around the world in terms of consumers, technology, and more. I find that if I take the time to really take a look around, that I will be surprised less and... [...]

What do the best IT leaders do that others don’t? There are several habits and practices that separate the highly effective IT leaders from the ineffective leaders. But there are 7 habits in particular that really differentiate the best of the best. Here are the 7 habits of highly effective IT leaders: Habit #1. Focus... [...]