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🔮 Crafting Tech Teams

Unlock the Untapped Potential of Your Engineering Team. Master yourself and rid yourself of limiting beliefs. Become the leader worthy of a high performing team. Learn how to build the right things at the right time with proven industry practices

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TDD & Commit: Is unit testing harmful? What about Rework/Refactoring?

A recording from Denis Čahuk's live video

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TDD, TBD, Dynamic Teaming: What would a great CTO do?

You're a CTO overwhelmed with improvement initiatives and pressure from your product team to stop with the Agile nonsense and just ship things. How do you balance your focus and execution?

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Should TDD be Mandatory? Why are so few teams using it?

Popularity is not a good measure for quality. The best litmus test for engineering culture is an ongoing effort to learn and experiment with a small part of your bets.

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TDD: Getting out of the never-tester mindset

Teams often lose the testing battle before it has begun due to their in-grained identity as not-testers or being in a certain camp: TDD, anti-TDD, old-school, new-age, vibe coder, etc.

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TDD: Mocks, fakes, stubs, doubles, shunts ayayay!

A recording from Denis Čahuk's live video

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Every Mock Is a Bet Against Your Design

If you’ve ever felt like your tests get in the way of refactoring, or like mocks make everything harder rather than simpler this stream is for you.

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☀️ While I’m out: A 6-part deep dive on TDD, engineering culture and leadership

A Summer Deep-Dive on Testing, Design, and Teams from our previous webinars and coaching streams.

Every Mock Is a Bet Against Your Design

Engineers glamorously flock to using mocking frameworks as a solution to saving time. In reality it is a band-aid provided by framework authors, baiting teams to ignore their subpar design decisions.

Our Tech Journey Update & Planning

A recording from Denis Čahuk's live video

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Intersection of Refactoring and Design

A recording from Denis Čahuk's live video

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