Archive for December, 2009

  • Here’s a video of my presentation on challenging requirements at the Agile Testing, Specifications and BDD exchange last month. I talk about problems with requirements gathering processes established in the industry and offer ideas to improve that.

    Challenging requirements

    Here’s a video of my presentation on challenging requirements at the Agile Testing, Specifications and BDD exchange last month. I talk about problems with requirements gathering processes established in the industry and offer ideas to improve that.

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  • This week at the XPDay 09 conference in London, I facilitated a discussion on practices, ideas and tools that help us focus on building software that matters. We started by quickly going over the conclusions from a similar workshop held in august during the Alt.NET UK conference. We then started...

    Building software that matters, part two

    This week at the XPDay 09 conference in London, I facilitated a discussion on practices, ideas and tools that help us focus on building software that matters. We started by quickly going over the conclusions from a similar workshop held in august during the Alt.NET UK conference. We then started...

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  • Dan Rough, Rob Bowley, Hibri Marzook and others from 7Digital presented an experience report of agile adoption by the services team at 7Digital, a media distribution company, today at XPDay 09. What’s really interesting about this experience report, compared to others at technical conferences, is that their CEO and commercial...

    Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital

    Dan Rough, Rob Bowley, Hibri Marzook and others from 7Digital presented an experience report of agile adoption by the services team at 7Digital, a media distribution company, today at XPDay 09. What’s really interesting about this experience report, compared to others at technical conferences, is that their CEO and commercial...

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  • Benjamin Mitchell from BNP Paribas presented an experience report on moving from Scrum to Lean and Kanban yesterday at XPDay 2009 in London. During the initial phases of the project, before he joined, consultants were called in to help implement Scrum. Soon after the consultants left there was a backlash...

    Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas

    Benjamin Mitchell from BNP Paribas presented an experience report on moving from Scrum to Lean and Kanban yesterday at XPDay 2009 in London. During the initial phases of the project, before he joined, consultants were called in to help implement Scrum. Soon after the consultants left there was a backlash...

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  • Mark Striebeck from Google opened XPDay 2009 today with a talk titled “Developer testing, from the dark ages to the age of enlightenment”. Suggesting that software testing is today in a renaissance stage, Striebeck said that the community is now rediscovering “ancient” practices. Most things we use in testing today...

    Improving testing practices at Google

    Mark Striebeck from Google opened XPDay 2009 today with a talk titled “Developer testing, from the dark ages to the age of enlightenment”. Suggesting that software testing is today in a renaissance stage, Striebeck said that the community is now rediscovering “ancient” practices. Most things we use in testing today...

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