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.
communication Archive
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Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 7 CommentsWhile doing research for my new book, I was very surprised to find out that Jim Shore gave up on acceptance testing. I use his “describe-demonstrate-develop” process description all the time in my workshops, so I guess I better stop doing that. Jim Shore wrote: My experience with Fit and... -
Fitting agile acceptance testing into the development process
Posted on September 17, 2008 | 8 CommentsThe idea of the example-writing workshop to support acceptance testing seems to cause a lot of confusion and misunderstanding, at least judging from my two most recent talks and the questions during the discussion at the second Alt.NET UK conference. A lot of people seem to somehow contrast that to... -
How many points are there in a five-point star?
Posted on August 29, 2008 | 39 CommentsI’m currently reading Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design by Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg. The book was written twenty years ago but it is still spot-on, which is really incredible for a software-development related book. Gause and Weinberg described an experiment from one of their workshops that was supposed to... -
Bulding smart teams
Posted on August 5, 2008 | 4 CommentsJames Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, gave a keynote speech today at the first day of Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. His talk was about how to harness the collective intelligence better and what conditions have to be met for teams to be more intelligent than any single... -
The tale of two bridges
Posted on May 19, 2008 | 1 CommentMisunderstandings caused by wrong assumptions or supposedly self-evident knowledge are, in my opinion, among the biggest obstacles to great software. Developers and business people can have a great time talking to each other, agree on everything and still understand two completely different things. Problems like that will not cause a...
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