The product owner role in agile delivery teams has been one of the least understood and even most criticized. How can one person represent all the business stakeholders, customers and end users? But if we don’t have a product owner, who gets agreement from all the different perspectives and brings the advance clarity we need […]
Read MoreBernice Niel Ruhland, a director of quality management programs, contributed so much value to More Agile Testing. In addition to sidebars where she explains ideas she uses for training and managing testers, we refer to several stories and ideas we learned from her. She also read every draft of every chapter at least three times […]
Read MoreThis new book by Gojko Adzic and David Evans is deceptively slim. It’s not just 50 ideas to improve your user stories. It’s 50 experiments you can try to improve how you deliver software. For each experiment, David and Gojko provide you with information and resources “to make it work”. One chapter that has […]
Read MoreI was so excited to see A Coach’s Guide to Agile Testing from Samantha Laing and Karen Greaves of Growing Agile. I don’t know of any other book to guide coaches in helping agile teams learn good ways to succeed with testing and build quality into their software product. Here are my immediate thoughts after […]
Read MoreI was an early adopter of the terrific Agile in a Flash cards by Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger, but left in the dust in the new fashion of having one’s photo taken with the card deck! I have remedied that situation with help from my friend Anna Blake, who was my photo shoot Art […]
Read MoreWhen I read Earl Everett’s foreword to Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change, I knew I wanted to keep reading. He points out that “system architecture is a human activity”, and that Agile recognizes the humanness of systems development. That’s my experience, and this book affirmed that delivering valuable software frequently and consistently over […]
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