During STANZ in Christchurch, I had the opportunity to attend Sharon Robson’s “Leading The Way – From the Back of the Room”. This session discussed what leadership entailed – more than just managing but guiding and empowering others to do their job well. Leadership involved:   Learning from the…
Have you ever been testing on a project and the test execution phase is squeezed until you end up not being able to run all the tests originally planned? You test as much as you can fit in but how do you know which areas to focus your test efforts on? How do you know which bits to test first?  A…
It was amazing!! Taking this year’s STANZ conference on the road added some spice to give it a slightly different flavour. The first stop was Christchurch where fancy dress was optional in the medieval setting of The Chateau (with moat included). Even the toilets were labelled ‘Lords’ and ‘Ladies…
Last week the APN Auckland chapter hosted a talk by Dave Snowden titled “Agile: good practice, poor theory”.   Snowden has a long history in adaptive software development and was one of the original designers of DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Methodology) which is considered to be one of the…
Last week I was able to attend the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas, USA.   It was a great event and I came away energised and exhausted in equal measure.   The stats about the conference are impressive:  Nearly 1600 people attended from countries all around the world Over 300 sessions…
As testers, we often forget about firewalls and their potential impact on our testing so I thought I’d write this blog as a refresher on firewalls.   A firewall restricts the network traffic through them. It does this pretty much like a security guard screens people entering an exclusive Hollywood…
Software Education is now an International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) accredited organisation with four ICAgile accredited trainers: Shane Hastie, Sharon Robson, Michi Tyson and Juan Barberis.  Software Education has offered Agile training and consulting since 1990 and run hundreds of courses…
During the past year, I have been assisting change management teams to migrate from Waterfall to Agile through training and coaching in areas such as Lean, Kaizen, Kanban and Agile. The journey has taken me into numerous organizations in the Finance, Telco, and Online markets with primarily large…
Along with 20 others, I attended the peer conference KWST#2 on 15-16 June 2012 which was sponsored by Software Education.   I felt the conference provided ample opportunities to network but more importantly, it provided an insight into the minds of the people we were networking with. I gained a…
Last week SoftEd hosted the second-ever Kiwi Workshop on Software Testing (KWST). After last year’s hugely successful event, we were all counting down the days to host the second KWST. This event is special because of the very specific way it is set up and run and also the people that attend (it is…
“Estimation is hard – we often ask the wrong questions at the wrong times and end up with the wrong answers” – so say Anja Wever, Sharon Robson and Shane Hastie, the three SoftEd Practice Leads and experts in Business Analysis, Software Testing and Agile. Well if even they find it hard what hope do…
First of all, why do I work within the Lean framework for business process improvements?  Because Lean works! Also, because attendees enjoy learning about Lean’s history, practices, and tools as a means of improving their quality of life. They realize that we live in a complex world and they want…
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