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 MoreACCUS Day 1
The first day of Agile Coach Camp began with each person introducing him- or herself and his-or-her superpower. There were some clever ones. I said mine was getting people to write on the whiteboard, because whenever I do, magic happens, but then Tim Ottinger tweeted his disappointment that my superpower didn’t involve donkeys. The first […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve been writing instead of blog posts!
I have been doing some writing in the past six weeks, in addition to rehabilitating my broken-and-now-healed ankle. But it’s all been published elsewhere. Here are some links: Software Quality Connection, “How to Improve Communication between QA and Development“ SearchSoftwareQuality.com, “Agile development: The whole-team approach” Also on SearchSoftwareQuality.com, “The whole-team approach to Agile development: Examples […]
Read MoreALE Network Bathtub Conference #2
I had the honor of presenting a short webinar talk at the second ALE (Agile Lean Europe) Network Bathtub Conference on June 30. I gave two examples from my team on how we have used experiments to address issues that surfaced in our retrospectives. All the presentations from this terrific event are available on the […]
Read MoreFirst RobotFramework Test!
I just posted our team’s recent experience in taking a different approach when presented with an unusual problem: one theme that needs to get out the door, and another that will be hard to “hide” but will take multiple sprints. Please check it out on my Techwell/Stickyminds blog
Read MoreVenturing Into a Developers’ Conference
If you think conferences aimed at programmers are only for them, think again. I wrote about my experiences at ACCU 2011 on TechTarget. Take a chance and try a conference that doesn’t seem tailor-made for you!
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