Janet Gregory and I enjoyed participating in the Quality in Agile conference in Vancouver April 20-21. We paired on a keynote: “Do testers need to code… to be useful?” Our opinion in a nutshell: testers need technical awareness to collaborate effectively with all their team members, but our software delivery teams already should have expert […]
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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 MoreMind Maps for Theme Planning
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 […]
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We’re a Scrum team (though in reality, we’re also doing XP along with some Lean and Kanban practices and principles). So, on occasion we have Estimating Meetings. Common wisdom in the Scrum world (at least as far as I’ve been taught) is that teams should not spend a huge amount of time discussing each story […]
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