Techwell Blog Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Testing Lean Coffee, and other stories

September 27, 2012 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, Lean Coffee, Techwell Blog / No Comments

Last week, Ryan Freckleton and I experimented with a way to build our testing community in the southern Front Range area. We held a “Testing Lean Coffee” in Monument, Colorado, halfway between our respective homes. Read about it on the brand new TechWell site! Please also see my other recently published TechWell articles, including the […]

Story Mapping the Wrong Way

December 12, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, experiments, Stickyminds Blog, Story Mapping, Techwell Blog / No Comments

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!

Focus on the “Why”, not the “How” for User Stories

November 4, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, estimating meetings, Publications, Techwell Blog, writing / No Comments

In my latest Techwell blog post, I tell the tale of our most recent estimating meeting, where the product owner brought us a user story that was written as a technical implementation. We had to get him to back up and tell us the purpose of the story, so that we could determine the appropriate […]

First RobotFramework Test!

July 1, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / experiments, Stickyminds Blog, Techwell Blog, Whole Team Approach, writing / No Comments

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

Technical Debt Sprints

June 22, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / Stickyminds Blog, technical debt, Techwell Blog, writing / 4 Comments

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?

Experiments

June 2, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / experiments, Retrospectives, Stickyminds Blog, Techwell Blog, Uncategorized, writing / No Comments

My first blog post on the new Techwell site (a site provided by the same people who bring you Stickyminds) tells the story of how my team recently tried an experiment to get the business and the Product Owner to give us requirements, mock-ups and other information about user stories before we do our sprint […]

Techwell Blog

Testing Lean Coffee, and other stories

Story Mapping the Wrong Way

Focus on the “Why”, not the “How” for User Stories

First RobotFramework Test!

Technical Debt Sprints

Experiments

Some takeaways from the Software Teaming 2024 conference

Celebrating 10 years of friendship, courage, and joy

A look back at release engineering

What DevOps culture means to me – and how you can help it grow

More learnings from Agile Testing Days 2023 – part 3

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