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 […]
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Story 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 MoreFocus on the “Why”, not the “How” for User Stories
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 […]
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?
Read MoreExperiments
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 […]
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