Gojko Adzic

Here are the details on the May agile testing evening in London at Skills Matter. I hope you can join us for this fun workshop.

May 4th, 18:30 to 20:00 Hands-On Root-Cause Analysis

Even the best teams encounter costly, puzzling problems. Leaders and others concerned with improving software quality and team process often say they are going to address “the” root cause of such a problem. But is there only one root cause? How do you discover the cause or causes? And how do you ensure your fix doesn’t cause more headaches than the original problem?

The five-whys method of root-cause analysis helps you effectively discover what went wrong and what to do about it. Douglas Squirrel, CTO of youDevise, Ltd., will demonstrate how his team use this method to bring about continuous improvement in their software process.

Following a brief introduction to the five-whys method, heavily influenced by the ideas of Eric Ries, we’ll introduce a fun and slightly silly scenario that includes some problems amenable to root-cause analysis. Using the fishbowl method, a group of volunteers will perform the analysis with input from the rest of the audience. There will be plenty of time for questions!

This is a free event but up-front registration is required. See http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-testing/hands-on-root-cause-analysis/rl-311 to register and for more information.

Next agile testing user group evening in London will be on the 4th February, at the new Skills Matter offices.

I’ll be presenting Cucumber a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. I will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber features and best practices for writing and maintaining Cucumber scenarios.

The event is free, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. For more information and to register click here

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