Technical debt and “selling” agile
About 18 months back I contributed an article on “selling agile to the CFO” to Software Quality Connection (SmartBear.com), but they seem to have taken it down. I recently had a Twitter discussion with Woody Zuill about story estimates and technical debt. Woody tweets about #NoEstimates. I think he has some good arguments for not […]
News for the start of July
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 […]
Teamwork & Making Good Choices
Agile is pretty mainstream now, but some folks still aren’t sure what testers do. In addition, the “Whole Team” approach to quality and the idea that testing and coding aren’t separate phases still mystifies some people. I think my team’s activities the past two days are a good illustration of how agile teams work together […]
A Look Back at AWTA
Zeliko Filipin has posted a bunch of podcasts with AWTA workshop participants, including yours truly and Janet Gregory. I knew at the time that I wasn’t grasping all the information in every presentation, and listening to the podcasts reminds me of what didn’t quite register at the time. There are so many possibilities for test […]