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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Agile walls Part 3 – testing walls

My last post was about Architecture Walls, this one is a distillation of the architecture into the testing world. In this post, I describe how testing can be displayed, tracked and managed on a wall for an Agile Team  Testing walls.   Testing walls are similar to architecture walls but take a…
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Agile walls part 2 – architecture walls

This is part 2 of my 4 part series on Agile walls and the uses we can have for them. The premise of the wall is big visible charts, constant and accessible updates and clarity for the entire team on what is happening.   Architecture Walls.  Architecture walls are very different yet strangely similar…
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Agile walls part 1 - planning walls

BVCs, TOWs and POWs are very important tools in the Agile world but what exactly are they? BVCs are Big Visible Charts, TOWs are Things on Walls and POWs are Plain Old Whiteboards. Why are they valuable tools?  Because everyone can see them, study them, understand them, and ideally update them…
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Fail well – not just fast – for team and organisational learning

In August this year, I had the absolute pleasure of travelling to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend Agile 2013, the world’s largest gathering of Agile nerds enthusiasts and those well on their way!  Spanning a total of 4. 5 days and 17 exciting tracks it’s needless to say that there were many…
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