Focus to Scale: Amplifying XP Practices with Elisabeth Hendrickson

06/17/24 • 39 min

Elisabeth Hendrickson, author of the hugely impactful book, Explore It! joins the podcast to talk
- How the Explore It! text came to be
- What is it about testing that tends to make it a gate rather than part of development
- How we can scale XP practices
- Importance of focus and how XP helps achieve it.
- How to deal with resistance when introducing XP practices
- How to maintain customer centricity while scaling
- How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Project Manager patterns
- Simpler Machines - a newsletter recommendation from Elisabeth: https://simplermachines.gumroad.com/
Buy the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Explore-Increase-Confidence-Exploratory-Testing/dp/1937785025

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