Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
articles Archive
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Effect Mapping Handbook (beta): Your feedback wanted
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsHere is a beta version of a new book I’m working on: The Effect Mapping Handbook. Effect Mapping is simple yet incredibly effective collaborative project planning technique, that helps teams align their activities with overall business objectives and make better roadmap decisions. Effect Mapping isn’t the first or the last... -
Redefining software quality
Posted on May 8, 2012 | 35 CommentsA lot of my consulting work lately has been around helping teams see software quality more holistically – that it’s not something only testers (or only developers) should be concerned about. Doing that I’ve started formulating an idea that isn’t fully baked yet – but it helped me explain things... -
Splitting user stories: the hamburger method
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 17 CommentsProblems: Story is too big to split and estimate; business users don’t accept any breakdown proposed by the delivery team; team is inexperienced and thinks about technical splitting only;new project starts and no simple starting stories can be foundSolution: User Story Hamburger -
Feature Injection article is online
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsInfoQ just published an article on Feature Injection by Chris Matts that I’ve also contributed to. This article is a high level introduction of Feature Injection and related techniques. We explain the key elements of the framework and support them with a realistic example. For more info, see click here. -
Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 3 CommentsAs usual, Dan North did a fantastic keynote today at Oredev. Amazon should really start paying his salary — I ended up buying several books while he was still talking. North’s central idea was that patterns for effective software delivery derive from embracing uncertainty and that the delivery landscape changes...
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