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From Bugs to BEAM Sep 30, 2024
Mega-workshop facilitation tips Sep 9, 2021
Nijute: how to solve impossible problems May 10, 2021
The Play, the points, and the biggest lie in software Jan 11, 2021
Given-When-Then, tweak and try again Nov 2, 2020
Given-When-Then with Style Jun 10, 2020
Specification by Example, remotely Mar 31, 2020
Specification by Example, 10 years later Mar 17, 2020
Descaling Agile Dec 9, 2019
Deliberate side-products Dec 1, 2019
Free card deck for 50 Quick Ideas to Improve User Stories Oct 15, 2019
BaDaaS and the future of cloud integration Feb 6, 2019
Sprints, marathons and root canals Aug 30, 2018
Error Mining Mar 24, 2018
Choosing the right JavaScript testing tool Feb 25, 2018
Alice in the Hall of Mirrors Jan 23, 2018
Christmas Prioritisation Dec 11, 2017
People that make computers go crazy Dec 8, 2017
The scary side of biometric security Nov 13, 2017
Five things everyone should know about Unicode Nov 7, 2017
Snow White and the 777.777.777 Dwarfs Oct 17, 2017
Introducing Appraise Oct 9, 2017
Designing for the Serverless Age Oct 5, 2017
Humans vs Computers finally shipping Aug 31, 2017
Names that make computers go crazy May 24, 2017
When automation goes horribly wrong Mar 15, 2017
Migrating to Serverless, an experience report Feb 27, 2017
The key lesson from our serverless migration Feb 23, 2017
To slice stories, first make sure they are TOO BIG Jan 5, 2017
Impact Mapping With Innovation Games Dec 15, 2016
Migrating to a serverless architecture, MindMup 2.0 case study Nov 2, 2016
What's next for agile? -- interview at Agile Prague Sep 18, 2016
Awesome JS microservices in the cloud for (almost) free Sep 11, 2016
Highlights from Serverless Code Camp #1 Sep 5, 2016
Serverless architectures: game-changer or a recycled fad? Aug 27, 2016
Five ways to reduce the cost of large test suites May 24, 2016
Impact Mapping Workshop – now opensource and free to use May 9, 2016
The key first step for successful organisational change Apr 19, 2016
The most important lesson to improve software delivery Mar 14, 2016
Introducing Claudia.js – deploy Node.js microservices to AWS easily Feb 22, 2016
Potentially shippable is no longer good enough Feb 1, 2016
Test automation without a headache Nov 21, 2015
Automated testing: back to the future Nov 16, 2015
Turning continuous delivery into a business advantage Nov 6, 2015
Avoiding the most common pitfall of large-scale agile Sep 10, 2015
To improve testing, snoop on the competition Apr 23, 2015
Explore capabilities, not features Mar 12, 2015
How to get the most out of Given-When-Then Feb 25, 2015
How to get the most out of impact mapping Nov 17, 2014
Adaptive Planning Beyond User Stories Nov 7, 2014
Zone of control vs Sphere of influence Sep 12, 2014
Specification by Example from Agile New Zealand 2014 Sep 4, 2014
Make Impacts, not Software Jun 14, 2014
Forget the walking skeleton – put it on crutches Jun 9, 2014
Focus on key examples May 5, 2014
Throw user stories away after they are delivered Mar 25, 2014
Kanban in Action Mar 20, 2014
How to not just survive, but thrive with flexible scope Mar 14, 2014
Budget instead of estimating Feb 24, 2014
User stories should be about behaviour changes Feb 12, 2014
Divide responsibility for defining stories Jan 13, 2014
Let's break the Agile Testing Quadrants Oct 21, 2013
Writing “As a User” does not make it a user story Sep 30, 2013
Scrum, velocity, and driving down the motorway the wrong way Sep 12, 2013
How we solved our #1 product management problem Sep 1, 2013
Reinventing software quality - video Jun 18, 2012
BDD - busting the myths Jun 18, 2012
How To Solve “Not Enough Time” May 31, 2012
Redefining software quality May 8, 2012
Splitting user stories -- the hamburger method Feb 23, 2012
February revolution, part 2 Feb 21, 2012
The February Revolution Feb 21, 2012
Sleeping with the enemy Feb 17, 2012
Five Key Challenges for Agile Testers tomorrow Nov 17, 2011
Dan North at Oredev - Embrace Uncertainty Nov 10, 2011
Kiss and fly Sep 12, 2011
Clean Coder – sharpen your professional skill Jun 15, 2011
The Mistake at the Heart of Agile Jun 9, 2011
Bug statistics are a waste of time May 17, 2011
A fresh perspective on the specification/script problem May 10, 2011
Visualising quality - initial ideas Apr 27, 2011
The wolf who cried boy Apr 20, 2011
Is prioritisation based on business value right? Apr 4, 2011
Simulating your way out of regression testing Mar 3, 2011
TDD breaking the mould Feb 4, 2011
The principle of symmetric change Dec 2, 2010
Beyond basic TDD Nov 9, 2010
Seven key ideas of real quality assurance Nov 3, 2010
How Google does test engineering Oct 15, 2010
Rethinking user interface test automation Oct 5, 2010
Bug tracking for agile teams Oct 5, 2010
Let’s change the tune Aug 4, 2010
The Sine of Death by UI Test Automation Jul 29, 2010
Stop automating manual test scripts! Jul 19, 2010
Anatomy of a good acceptance test Jun 16, 2010
Udi Dahan -- the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD Jun 11, 2010
Evolution of DDD -- CQRS and Event Sourcing Jun 11, 2010
Eric Evans -- Domain driven design redefined Jun 11, 2010
Effective root cause analysis techniques May 26, 2010
Agile in a Start-up Games Development Studio May 19, 2010
David Anderson's Kanban -- Finally an authoritative source on the Kanban method May 18, 2010
Effective exercises for teaching TDD Apr 19, 2010
How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot Apr 13, 2010
Mind your boomerangs Apr 5, 2010
Brian Marick -- Mocks lead to better design faster Mar 28, 2010
Acceptance testing best practices Mar 3, 2010
Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil? Mar 1, 2010
The Billboard over Moscow Feb 10, 2010
How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? Jan 6, 2010
Challenging requirements Dec 10, 2009
Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas Dec 8, 2009
Improving testing practices at Google Dec 7, 2009
Eight interesting techniques to test how a project is going Dec 4, 2009
Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests Nov 20, 2009
How to test asynchronous systems efficiently Nov 11, 2009
Checking is not testing, testing is not checking Nov 6, 2009
QUPER model for better requirements Nov 4, 2009
Efficiency is the enemy of effectiveness Nov 4, 2009
Upgrading agile development at uSwitch.com - From concept to production in four days Oct 29, 2009
Mockito in six easy examples Oct 23, 2009
Mary Poppendieck - test driven development redefined Oct 16, 2009
How to promote learning in software teams Oct 15, 2009
Seven key agile testing practices for releasable software Oct 13, 2009
Changing the role of test managers Oct 13, 2009
Are agile testers different? Oct 13, 2009
DDD and relational databases – the value object dilemma Sep 30, 2009
Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing Sep 24, 2009
Joe the Developer doesn't need a certificate Sep 22, 2009
Mocks are not about isolation, but about responsibilities Sep 21, 2009
Software development with hunters and gatherers Sep 9, 2009
To merge or not to merge code – essentially not an IT decision! Sep 2, 2009
Acceptance testing in plain English with Concordion .NET Sep 1, 2009
Building software that matters Aug 3, 2009
TDD as if you meant it – revisited Aug 2, 2009
Improving performance and scalability with DDD Jun 23, 2009
Eric Evans - Why do efforts to replace legacy systems fail? Jun 19, 2009
Examples make it easy to spot inconsistencies May 12, 2009
Eric Evans – What I’ve learned about DDD since the book Mar 12, 2009
What have we learned from 10 Years of TDD? Mar 11, 2009
Is software engineering? Mar 11, 2009
Thought-provoking TDD exercise at the Software Craftsmanship conference Feb 27, 2009
Agile Testing (Crispin/Gregory) is a great book, long overdue Feb 23, 2009
Messaging is not just for investment banks Jan 6, 2009
Doing the wrong thing right is better than doing the right thing wrong Dec 19, 2008
Quality comes from cooperation Dec 11, 2008
Specification workshops - an agile way to get better requirements Nov 12, 2008
Specifying with examples Nov 4, 2008
How to test e-mail notifications properly Oct 30, 2008
Fitting agile acceptance testing into the development process Sep 17, 2008
How many points are there in a five-point star? Aug 29, 2008
The fifth element of the Agile Manifesto Aug 8, 2008
Adopting agile from inside - learnings from the BBC Aug 8, 2008
Paying programmers -- are bonuses bad and what to do about it? Aug 7, 2008
10 ways to screw up despite Scrum and XP Aug 6, 2008
Bulding smart teams Aug 6, 2008
Programming Collective Intelligence Jun 9, 2008
The tale of two bridges May 19, 2008
Put the web server on a diet and increase scalability May 5, 2008
Delivering useful software Apr 28, 2008
Lazy web sites run faster Apr 7, 2008
Two data streams for a happy website Mar 3, 2008
When TDD goes bad Feb 25, 2008
How to avoid getting lost in translation Jan 30, 2008
Returning the favour for on-site customers Jan 9, 2008
How to sell TDD to non-technical stakeholders? Dec 11, 2007
The waterfall trap for “agile” projects Dec 4, 2007
Who should write acceptance tests? Nov 23, 2007
Fighting the monster Nov 20, 2007
The Zero-Testing Time Bomb Oct 23, 2007
Effective user interface testing Sep 25, 2007
Don’t deal with problems like Gaggia Jun 14, 2007
The Poka-Yoke principle and how to write better software May 9, 2007
Documentation for Telepathic Developers Apr 3, 2007
Breaking the Web Mar 22, 2007
Agile Architect – Myth or Reality? Mar 6, 2007
Simple CV Spam Filter - if (certified) move(“junk”) Feb 22, 2007
How not to build a castle on a swamp Feb 8, 2007
Blinded by the user interface Jan 31, 2007
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Jan 18, 2007
Logging anti-patterns Dec 9, 2006
Moving from software production to software publishing Nov 8, 2006
The Magic of Goals -- Focused Projects and Better Requirements Oct 22, 2006
Death March Oct 20, 2006
Sources of Power - How People Make Decisions Oct 20, 2006
The Art of Project Management Oct 18, 2006
The Best Software Writing I Oct 13, 2006
How to develop software like commanding a tank Oct 11, 2006