agile Archive

  • Problems: 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

    Splitting user stories: the hamburger method

    Problems: 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

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  • InfoQ 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.

    Feature Injection article is online

    InfoQ 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.

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  • Here are my slides from the agile testing days 2011 keynote “5 key challenges for agile testers tomorrow” And by popular demand, here is the agile testing donut separately:

    5 key challenges for agile testers tomorrow – slides

    Here are my slides from the agile testing days 2011 keynote “5 key challenges for agile testers tomorrow” And by popular demand, here is the agile testing donut separately:

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  • 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...

    Is prioritisation based on business value right?

    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...

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  • I was very fortunate to attend a workshop on Robot Framework given by Pekka Klarck in London a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Robot basics already on this blog so I won’t repeat myself, but here are some new ideas I picked up at the workshop:

    Robot framework revisited

    I was very fortunate to attend a workshop on Robot Framework given by Pekka Klarck in London a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Robot basics already on this blog so I won’t repeat myself, but here are some new ideas I picked up at the workshop:

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