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Learn how to do Specification by Example
I’m speaking here:
- Agile Practitioners 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30-31 January 2012
- Software Passion Summit, Göteborg, Sweden, March 19-20, 2012
- Scandinavian Developers conference, Göteborg, Sweden, April 17, 2012
- Dutch Testing Conference, Bussum, NL, 18 April
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May 2012
Spec by Example workshop in London – March 15-16
The best course I’ve attended in my career. I loved that the instructor challenged us to think for ourselves and did not give us the answers straight away – Trond Svensen, SITS
xpday08 Archive
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Doing the wrong thing right is better than doing the right thing wrong
Posted on December 19, 2008 | 2 CommentsDuring his lightning talk on the requirements trap at XP Day 08, Allan Kelly presented the results of a Bain Consulting research which looked into the effectiveness of IT, alignment with business goals and the effects of those two factors on sales and IT spending. -
Building a successful agile team
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 1 CommentJohn Rae and James Shiell presented tips and tricks for hiring the right people for an agile team yesterday during their session titled “Building a successful agile team” at XPDay 08 yesterday. Their startup grew rapidly last year, and was almost constantly hiring. The traditional hiring techniques and practices did... -
How do you decide when to pair program?
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 5 CommentsAt the XpDay 08 conference today, I participated in a workshop on pair programming organised by Matt Wynne and Laura Plonka. The participants were spit into several groups, discussing various challenges for the adoption and implementation of pair programming. I was in a group which was given a task to... -
Quality comes from cooperation
Posted on December 11, 2008 | 1 CommentChris Ambler, European test manager for Microsoft games, spoke about how games companies are testing software during his keynote Testing games is not a game – it’s serious stuff at XPDay 2008 today in London. Ambler said that the game industry is from a technology perspective doing much more bleeding... -
XpDay 08 open
Posted on December 11, 2008 | No CommentsXPDay 08 started today in London. XPDay is an insiders’ conference on agile development, held yearly in London and organised by the Extreme Tuesday club. Last year, there were quite a few interesting new ideas presented so I’m really looking forward to the sessions today and tomorrow. This year, most...
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