estimating meetings

Using Mind Maps for Test Planning

Recently I wrote a post about how our team used a mind map to help us with theme planning. We also sometimes use mind maps to help us in planning our testing. Some people asked if I’d post an example. Here it is: We’re a financial services company, and this theme was a rewrite of […]

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“Estimating” Meetings

We’re a Scrum team (though in reality, we’re also doing XP along with some Lean and Kanban practices and principles). So, on occasion we have Estimating Meetings. Common wisdom in the Scrum world (at least as far as I’ve been taught) is that teams should not spend a huge amount of time discussing each story […]

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