How testers can win the battle against the automatons!

In the third annual Western Australian testing conference, TestWest 2015, organised by Bankwest, 200 attendees from 45 different companies were greeted with a shock and awe keynote given by digital entrepreneur Thor Essmen.    In his keynote ‘Speed is the New Black’ Thor explained that: “Mobile is…
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Trust me, I’m an Architect

Isn’t it time we took a moment to consider not what we do as architects, but how we do it?  There is plenty of discussion about the various practices of architecture, but often we put others (and the development teams in particular) off the architecture by our own practices or character.   In the…
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The long awaited BABOK® Guide v3 is nearly here!

So why did the IIBA update the BABOK?  We live in a world of fast change, everyone wants things completed yesterday.   Digital disruption, the internet of things, micro personalisation; it’s all about data, data & more data …  Let’s make things faster, let’s make them cheaper, lets’ make them more…
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What Agile means to me

In the Volere LinkedIn Group, Suzanne Robertson posted a question – what does “Agile” mean to the members of the group. This question helped me to distil some of my thinking and here is what I think it means to be Agile:  To me, Agile is a mindset and philosophy, based on the Values and Principles…
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Resistance is futile – The Borg Guide to coaching for change

I have been fortunate enough to attend last years’ Agile 2013 conference in Nashville, Tennessee – among others, I attended a talk by the UK-based Scrum Coach, trainer and author Geoff Watts discussing important elements in coaching for change.   Informative and entertaining, his talk has led me to…
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Struggling to define value?

Defining value can be really hard, it’s all about what makes the solution valuable to the team, customers and users. This value is often defined by what is delivered. This translates into the definition of done.  We struggle with value because it is so important, amorphous but is abstract…
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Metrics rock!

Yes! Metrics are fun, powerful and full of goodness. The key to making metrics like this is to understand what people want to know about your solution and gather the information, via test execution, that tells them what they need. To do this just decompose the metric into the information that they…
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SQL 101 – know what you need to know

SQL can seem daunting as it is another language, but to make it easier I often say to the class “what is the question you are asking?” In my classes for SQL, one of the key lessons we focus on is clearly figuring out what you need to know from the database. I get the class to tell it to me in plain…
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UAT – how much is it worth?

UAT (User Acceptance Testing) is a hugely powerful activity in the software development lifecycle. It is the phase where the development team gets the chance to prove that the new or modified software does two key things: Supports the fundamental business process or goal Works in the target…
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SQL? NoSQL? NewSQL? What the … SQL??

I was doing some reading over the Christmas break and was honing my skills on NoSQL (as you do!) and then saw this article from InfoQ that talks about SQL making a come-back. I for one did not even know that it had gone…
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Testing = thinking, thinking = testing

If you are having problems talking to people about testing or helping others in your organisation understand the role of testing in the development lifecycle my best advice is to change the words you use. The first change is to not say “testing” but instead, say “thinking”. This means that the…
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Agile walls Part 4 – reporting walls

In this series of blogs, I have been discussing how the walls of our offices can be used for great benefit for the team. One of the biggest benefits is the out and open display of metrics. All walls previously mentioned by definition display progress, work that is done, work still to be done, and…
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