Part 2: Testing vs Quality Management – Testing Activities
Testing Activities In my previous blog post Part 1, What is Testing, I talked about what I felt testing was about. In this second part of my series about testing […]
Part 1: Testing vs Quality Management – What is Testing?
What’s the difference between testing and quality management? Over the past few years, I’ve been thinking about quality and what it means. I’ve done a few talks on it and […]
Limiting Work in Progress
In a class I taught in Copenhagen, we had a discussion about limiting work in progress and concentrating on getting each story to “Done” before taking on more work. Later, […]
It’s NOT My Job – Take 2!
I wrote a blog post back in 2016 with the same title. A different event inspired me to write about the same idea and I think it bears repeating. Last […]
Artificial Acceleration
A term I use quite a bit when I’m teaching a class is ‘artificial constraints’ – those barriers we put up in our head that are non-existent. For example, sometimes […]
Do You Need a Test Column?…. Let’s Talk.
Paul Seaman (from Australia and @beaglesays on twitter) took me up on my offer to chat and we ended up having a great discussion about tasks and columns on a story board among many other things. I learned a little, and he took away some ideas that he wants to try with his team – a win-win in my books.
A Quiet Presence
This morning I received notification that a friend had passed away. Many remember him as a shaker and a doer in the agile community. He was that, but he did […]
Delivery Teams +
In More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Lisa Crispin and I talked about the idea of DevOps and testing. We tried to use the term to show there are DevOps activities – activities that contribute to the wholeness of the product, much like testing activities and coding and other development activities.
Shift Left – Why I Don’t Like the Term
For several years now, I have been tweeting or mentioning in conversations that I don’t like the term ‘shift-left’, and keep saying that I have to write a blog post on it.
Real-time Collaboration
The Importance of Real-time Collaboration I have spoken so many times about the importance of collaborating, and yet I still fall into the same trap that so many others do. […]