Why Do Engineering Practices Matter?

Good engineering practices are needed to sustain agility. Scrum doesn't mandate what those engineering practices should be, but you do need them. Engineering practices keep our code workable so we can release very frequently.

Games to Try:

• 99 Test Balloons

• Test-Driven Drawing

• Continuous Integration with Lego

• Agile Jenga Testing Game

• Lego Technical Practices Games

• Pairing for Non-Programmers

• Mob Programming

• Dice of Debt Game

• Hard Choices Board Game

• Pair Programming Using Tangrams

• Agile Engineering for Managers Workshop

• Agile Fluency Game - look for upcoming an workshop

Other Tips & Techniques to Learn Engineering Practices:

• Book Club

• Intra company technical mentorship program

• Pair/Mob Programming

• Technical meetups

• Lunch & Learns

• Mini workshops with internal experts

• Hackathons

• Internal and External Conferences

• One day workshops with outside experts

• Watch video as a team

• Bring outside projects to learn and share

• Reading and contributing to blogs

• New ideas using Gamification

• Tutor younger generation in schools/colleges

• Organize Code camps