I just noticed I haven’t posted here in awhile. I’ve been publishing articles on TechTarget and StickyMinds, but otherwise have been absorbed with a couple of exciting new things! On August 13, I started a new job on Pivotal Lab’s Pivotal Tracker team! This is truly a dream job, working with some of my favorite […]
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Ideas for Eliciting Examples and Specifications
Check out my recent Stickyminds article, where I distill some ideas I’ve learned recently from folks such as Declan Whelan, Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman (see the links in the article for more on those wonderful, smart folks.) And my latest Stickyminds article is on how my team has found ease and joy (to borrow […]
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Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany this November is sure to be even more terrific than it has been for the past three years. Please join us! I’m doing a tutorial, “Making Test Automation Work on Agile Projects”. Please take a look at my video on technical debt that introduces the tutorial. (If for nothing […]
Read MoreStory Mapping the Wrong Way
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 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 MoreTechnical Debt Sprints
My teammate Nanda Lankalapalli and I have an article in StickyMinds on how we use technical debt sprints to keep our technical debt to a manageable level. There are lots of approaches to managing technical debt – what works for your team?
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