I was at an Agile Academy Meetup last night and the topic was “The Agile Journey and beyond”. It was great to hear about the Agile concepts and practices being applied, in real-world scenarios – small and large organisations. But it was equally great to hear about how these organisations were using…
I’ve been teaching a lot of Agile courses lately, and a very common point of discussion is the way the Daily Stand-up meeting is often abused and misused. Words like “micromanagement” are often used.   The primary purpose of the daily stand-up is for the team members to communicate with each other…
I finally attended this yearly global and prestigious RE’10 event where academics and industry got together to listen and exchange ideas. Much to my surprise, there was a large disconnect between academia’s ideas of requirements engineering with much talk about automation that requires careful…
I have done a lot of data conversion projects and a lot of building reports on financial information.  But when participants in my courses ask about data warehouses my advice is a little more limited.   I usually tell people that data warehouses sound like a good idea and that every company should…
This morning I received an email that asked how a team will know their stories are good enough?  This question is one that frequently comes up in classes, and the right answer (of course) is “it depends”, which probably doesn’t help you much.   So – what does it depend on?  Here are my thoughts…
Anyone who has attended a Software Education course will be familiar with the most common answer we give to questions: ”it depends”. (We do then try to provide a context for what it depends on).   We are strong supporters of the context-driven approach to all aspects of software engineering – there…
Previous readers of this blog will have noticed the intellectual firepower and sheer passion of the contributors who share their views on testing.   They will also have noticed the blatant and shameful lack of authority with which one contributor (me) replies to questions and issues around…
In the google group Software Testers New Zealand, a discussion thread was posted about testers favourite testing books. One of the main books mentioned in Lessons learned in software testing.   Cynthia, a tester based in Auckland New Zealand wrote this great experience report using the book Lessons…
I have frequently been asked about how work actually changes on an Agile project. Here is the first part of what I hope will become a detailed examination of what actually goes on inside an Agile project:  I’ve been working with a team at a company in New Zealand recently, mentoring and coaching…
Yesterday (perhaps not by coincidence) Scott Ambler published an article in Dr Dobbs Journal titled The Agile Maturity Model  In the article, he offers five levels of “maturity” that organisations and teams go through as they move from blind faith acceptance of Agile mantras through to the…
I’ve been thinking about how to organise testing within an iteration. The challenge is that activities within an iteration are particularly related to a specific story. However, there are aspects of testing that are larger than a single story (e. g. integration testing). There are testing activities…
I was doing some spring cleaning recently and I started reading some old material I was meant to be filing (I am not a very efficient spring cleaner).   I came across some of my notes on power, politics and negotiation in organisations.  Some of the main sources of power were:  Being the “locus of…
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