His mission

(he chose to accept it)
Catalyze awesomeness in our consultants
Joel does a good job listening and digesting what people have to say. He’s definitely non-judgmental. His reaction is always thoughtful. [Working with him] was a really good experience.
Senior Consultant
Test Double Sleeper Agent

Recent Deployments

Heart hands
Supporting Test Double’s consultants
Organization
Career growth workgroups
Headset
Remote Ruby on Rails training

Tools & Tradecraft

Coaching

Positivity

Refactoring

Spiciness reportage

TDD dogma

Noteworthy Achievements

Coaching a quarter of our consultants
Facilitating two workgroups to develop our promotion process
Qualified and led a client’s team to develop the backend for a social media app
Coordinated with a client across language and culture differences, and 13 time zones away

Reports from the Field

  1. Our pair programming ethos

    Pair programming is more than just a way to build software, it’s the way we build teams. Great software is made by great teams. At Test Double, we value pair programming, and over the years we’ve refined our technique.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    April 21, 2020
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Joel Helbling
    Sam Jones
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Consulting
  2. The parable of the failing test

    In which my logic falls like an anvil upon the hammer of reason. Last night I had a dream, and it was beautiful. I dreamed about this very story. It went swimmingly, and my status in the world increased.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    July 19, 2013
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Joel Helbling
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Development

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