Technical Coaching with the Samman method
summary
A concrete coaching method that teaches TDD and refactoring with short practice sessions and live work in a real codebase, split into a structured Learning Hour (exercise-based, active learning) and two-hour Ensemble Working sessions where the whole team collaborates on backlog tasks. Coaches work part-time with teams in blocks (typically 10 half days), use pairing and role rotation, and report outcomes: more unit tests, more frequent commits and refactoring, better collaboration; external research shows about 23% average developer time wasted on technical debt.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 3:19Productivity and well-being
- 10:24Technical debt problem
- 17:25Learning TDD effectively
- 22:22Introducing Samman method
- 29:03Ensemble working explained
- 33:23Coaching structure and cadence
- 37:13Why technical coaching matters
- 40:21Career path for coaches
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