planning Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Experiment with Example Mapping

June 2, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / business analysis, example mapping, experiments, iteration planning meetings, planning, power of three, requirements, specification by example, three amigos, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 4 Comments

At Agile 2015, I learned about example mapping from Matt Wynne. Linda Rising’s session reinforced my enthusiasm to continue doing small, frugal experiments.I came back to work the following week feeling like it would be pretty easy to try an experiment with example mapping. You can use example mapping in your specification workshops, Three Amigos […]

The Whole Team Approach in Practice

April 26, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, continuous integration, exploratory testing, feedback, learning for testers, pairing, planning, shortened feedback loop, software quality, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 7 Comments

I’ve just been struggling with a title for this post. Some of my ideas were: “Visibility Taken to New Heights”, “Yes, There Are Teams Who Do This Just Like In the Books”, “A Real Commitment to Continual Improvement”, “Inspiration”, but none of them really capture my amazement at what I saw visiting the team at […]

Newly Available Online

April 1, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, documentation, planning, Publications, Selling Agile, Transitioning to agile / No Comments

My Software Quality Connection article, Selling Agile to the CFO, has been reformatted by ITBusinessEdge into a nice little slide deck. I think it is really easy to read & digest in this new format. I have a new article on TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com site, “Getting on the Same Page: How Testers Can Help Clarify Requirements”. […]

Using Mind Maps for Test Planning

February 28, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, communicating, estimating meetings, exploratory testing, Functional test tools, mind maps, planning, remote team members, software quality / 12 Comments

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 […]

Estimation Roller Coaster

February 1, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, estimating meetings, exploratory testing, planning, remote team members / 2 Comments

I report on my team’s experiences with sizing and estimating themes and stories in an article just published on StickyMinds, Estimation Roller Coaster. I’ve had some good feedback already via Twitter. Please let me know what you think!

Mind Maps for Theme Planning

January 9, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / communicating, estimating meetings, mind maps, planning / 4 Comments

When we have a new theme coming up, we usually start a few weeks or months in advance by having one or more brainstorming meetings with our Product Owner and possibly other stakeholders. The PO often draws examples on the whiteboard as we discuss: algorithms for calculations, or diagrams for workflow. We ask questions to […]