Summary: Skills that Developers Need to Acquire to Achieve an Agile Transformation Amir Kolsky, Rob Neppel, and Jim Trott talk about eight essential skills that developers need to acquire to work in an Agile transformation. Some of these skills are certainly taught in university; some are not as common... but are still essential. These are essential for any professional developer. The essential skills are: Programming. The programmer needs to know how to program. The act of taking a design and implementing it in a language and environment. Design. Creating a good Object-Oriented design based on design patterns. Depends on understanding the specification. The challenge in Agile is that the specification is always changing. You need to know how to create emergent design. TDD helps here. Refactoring. Pre-factoring (before you make changes to the code) and Post-factoring on legacy code to deal with the code smells. Analysis: Domain analysis and technical analysis. Working with stakeholders to understanding the specifications and to create specifications up front on what is necessary. ATDD is essential here. Communication is critical here because developers are actively engaged in every aspect of the process. ATDD and TDD helps to facilitate communication. Testing. This can be learned from the testers in the organization. Estimation. DevOps. Looking further down the value stream, extending the definition of done into deployment. Continuous Intergration is just the start of this. Process Improvement. This is a discipline that the entire team must embrace.. You can use the forums on the Net Objectives Portal to ask questions about the webinar. Note, you will have to register on the portal to do so. Music used in this podcast: “And So It Begins” and “Easy Lemon” by Kevin MacLeod © Incompetech Inc. Blog Type: Podcast Transcript Introduction In this show Amir Kolsky, Rob Neppel, and I talk about the eight essential skills that developers need to acquire in order to achieve an Agile transformation. Now, some of these skills are certainly taught in university and some are not as common, but they're all essential. They're essential for any professional developer to have. View Full Transcript Jim Trott: It's September 27, 2016. This show, "Skills That Developers Need to Acquire to Achieve an Agile Transformation." [background music] Jim: Hello and welcome to another edition of "Lean‑Agile Straight Talk," a regular podcast series from Net Objectives. I'm your host, Jim Trott. In this show Amir Kolsky, Rob Neppel, and I talk about the eight essential skills that developers need to acquire in order to achieve an Agile transformation. Now, some of these skills are certainly taught in university and some are not as common, but they're all essential. They're essential for any professional developer to have. In the course of this podcast, Amir Kolsky will describe these eight skills and I think it would be helpful to list them out right at the start just so they're fresh in your mind. Here are the eight skills that Amir says all developers need to know. First of all, how to program. How to design, creating a good object‑oriented design based on design patterns, emergent design. Refactoring, both before you start to make changes and dealing with legacy code to reduce code smells. Analysis, both domain analysis and technical analysis, and effective communication. Testing, one of those great skills that we can learn from our testers in our organization. Estimation, DevOps looking further down the value stream extending the definition of done into deployment, and the discipline of process improvement. Rob and Amir are going to talk a lot more about all of these in the podcast. Before we get started, I want to remind you that you can explore more about this topic by jumping over to the resources section of www.netobjectives.com or going to our portal, portal.netobjectives.com. At Net Objectives, we're committed to discovering effective software devel
