Welcome back! In this final video in our series designed to jump-start your understanding of the core principles and practices of Agile software engineering (ASE), one of our Lean-Agile thought leaders, Ken Pugh, wraps up with some additional key concepts:

• Systems thinking—the big-picture view
• Kinds of testing 
• Continuous testing pipeline
• Separation of concerns
• Common design patterns 
• Methods for refactoring code

Click on a topic below to check out any of the earlier videos in the series that you may have missed or want to watch again.

1. What is ASE? – Introduction to Agile software engineering
2. Principles & Practices of Built-In Quality – build the right thing and build the thing right
3. Accelerating Flow – The value stream
4. Testability – A key quality
5. Thinking Test First – Shift-left testing
6. Discovering Story Details – Scenarios of behavior
7. Creating a Shared Understanding with Behavior-Driven Development – The scenario becomes a test
8. Communicating with Models – Why? How?
9. Building Systems with Code Quality – Maintainability
10. Building Systems with Design Quality – Design to interfaces, not implementations
11. Implementing with Quality – Design with tests
12. The Rest of the Story –  Brief insights into other practices 

We hope you enjoyed this video sneak peek into ASE best practices. To take the next step, read about the course and go here to find an Agile Software Engineering course near you.   

Stay SAFe,

—Harry