SE Radio 629: Emily Bache on Katas and the Importance of Practice

SE Radio 629: Emily Bache on Katas and the Importance of Practice

Author: SE-Radio Team August 13, 2024 Duration: 51:52
Emily Bache, founder of the Samman Technical Coaching Society and author of several books about technical agile coaching, talks with SE Radio host Sam Taggart about katas and the importance of practice. They discuss how practicing in a safe environment helps developers to learn new skills and build new habits. They also talk about how Samman coaching combines this sort of deliberate practice with applying the lessons learned in practice to the production code base. They also touch briefly on the advantages of working in an ensemble fashion. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.

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