My new article “Story Mapping the Wrong Way”, a tale of how I messed up our team’s first attempt at story mapping but we learned stuff anyway, is on Techwell and Stickyminds. How fascinating! :-> Traduction en Français, merci à Nicolas Mereaux!
Read MoreVideo announcing Gojko Adzic’s Most Influential Agile Testing Professional award
Gojko Adzic was voted “Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person” by his peers, in an award program sponsored by the Agile Testing Days conference. I was asked to give the honorific speech before the actual award ceremony. This is no doubt the highlight of my professional career – I got to give a speech to […]
Read MoreUsing the Agile Testing Quadrants
Someone on the agile-testing Yahoogroup mailing list posted a link to a blog post in which he proceeded to misuse, maul and maim the Agile Testing Quadrants. There is no way to put comments on that blog post to try to refute his claim that the quadrants are somehow a waterfall process. Since other people […]
Read MoreFocus on the “Why”, not the “How” for User Stories
In my latest Techwell blog post, I tell the tale of our most recent estimating meeting, where the product owner brought us a user story that was written as a technical implementation. We had to get him to back up and tell us the purpose of the story, so that we could determine the appropriate […]
Read MoreRetrospective Fortune Cookies
I learned about Adam Weisbart’s retrospective fortune cookies via Twitter. He kindly sent me a box of them for our team to try. We’ve been doing sprint retrospectives every two weeks for eight years, so it’s always good to get out of our rut and try something new! We each chose a cookie, and took […]
Read MoreImproving our interview process
Last May, we were asked to enlarge our small team by hiring another tester and another programmer. We’ve made a few hiring decisions in the past which turned out to be mistakes, so we decided to enhance our interview process. After a lot of brainstorming and research, we came up with some ideas to try. […]
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