At the Scandinavian Developer Conference today in Göteborg, Alistair Cockburn spoke about “beyond agile: the new face of software engineering”. The main topic of his talk were five “chapters” that will according to Cocburn be a “broad base of software engineering in the next 20-50 years”, although I recognised most…

I’ll run a webinar on the long term value of acceptance testing on 22nd March. Most of the discussion on automated acceptance tests focuses on immediate benefits in development and defect detection or regression testing. But that’s not nearly all you can get from your tests. While working on my…

After a few months of persuasion from colleagues and friends, here is the paper about the Effect Mapping technique that I’ve been ranting about for the last year. Effect Mapping is a game-changing technique for high level project visualization. It provides stakeholders and sponsors with an excellent level of visibility…