Performance appraisals on Agile teams

Over the last week, I’ve had two people ask me about performance management and appraisals on Agile projects.   This post is to provide them with some answers and will hopefully be useful for others in the future.   One area where the adoption of Agile approaches often bumps up against established…
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What does automation mean to me?

If you had asked me this question when I first started my career as a software test analyst, I would have probably told you that automation had nothing to do with me – it was all those fancy things the automation team used to do with tools in order automate the execution of tests. These days I tend…
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Building trust in distributed teams

On Agile projects, the daily stand-up is one of the ways the team members build trust. The team members complete work every day, and make micro-commitments to each other every day. Making and keeping these commitments builds trust. And, when you’re not all together, it’s just a little more…
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The words we use matter!

I’ve just spent three weeks in the USA: having a busman’s holiday, I attended an Agile Alliance board meeting and a BABOK 3. 0 working session and being a tourist.   Something that struck me in both of the sessions, and in the classroom over the two weeks since I returned, is the importance of…
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The future of testing?

There seems to be a lot of discussions around right now about the future of testing, which direction is testing going, what skills will we need, etc. This all seems to depend on the technology under test, the lifecycle being used, and of the level of “Certification” of the testing team.   Quite…
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Tips for measuring soft skills programs

Soft skills – those oh-so-important qualities such as adaptability, critical thinking and creativity – are what’s needed to bridge the gap between good and great employees. Unlike black-and-white technical skills, however, these types of competencies often fall in a grey area of subjectivity. Given…
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An Introduction to the Volere Requirements Techniques

Suzanne and James Robertson are principals and founders of The Atlantic Systems Guild and joint originators of the Volere* requirements techniques. They have written many articles about requirements and we’d like to share one with you. It covers the main principles of the technique and why it is…
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CSG International

Have you or your organisation ever thought about going Agile? Have you gone Agile and found it tricky? Have you gone Agile and found it easy?  Every organisation works differently, but one thing is always true: change is hard. One way to alleviate the pain of change, even turn it to a positive…
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Scrum thoughts

I’ve just spent the afternoon reading the updated Scrum Guide from Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.   There are some great points in it – some of which I have recorded here because in my experiences working with the various Agile teams that I have met over the years it is good to have a reference…
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Performance agreements when you are on projects

I was happily running a class when someone asked about how performance agreements work if you are on projects.   “Really well” I replied, “you just need a new one for each project you are on. ”  My answer didn’t seem to go down well though. After all, who wants yet another piece of administration to…
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Splitting stories and exploding scope in Agile projects

 We used the  “Abstract to concrete” approach to splitting stories in a training course recently. The approach is published in our “resources” page, alongside some other approaches that also work.   But I told the class I would publish it here for easy reference, so here it is.   It's a simple…
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New Board Member – Paul Reid

We are absolutely delighted to announce that Paul Reid is joining the Software Education board. Paul is currently the Group Manager, Technology and Innovation at NZ Post, as well as a director of Maven. Prior to this he was CEO of the NZ Meteorological Service and prior to that he held a senior…
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