Book Review: 50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories by Gojko Adzic
In my opinion, this is a much needed book. I spend a lot of my time talking about testability of stories, and Gojko and David have given us many ideas […]
Lean Coffee at Agile Testing Days 2014, Potsdam, Germany
This is the third (maybe 4th) year that Lisa Crispin and I have hosted lean coffee in the Fritz pub. This year it was at 8:00 am which was a […]
Distributed Teams – my experience
Over the past decade or so, I’ve been working with teams that work in a distributed environment and giving advice about ways to make it work. Lisa Crispin (my co-author […]
Agile 2013 – Stalwart Session
In August, I was at the Agile 2013 conference in Nashville Tennessee along with ~1700 people. I attended talks, participated in open space sessions, Lean coffee sessions, and multiple hallway […]
Book Reviews: Discover to Deliver and Impact Mapping
I recently read two new books: Impact Mapping by Gojko Adzic, and Discover to Deliver by Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman. I have posted both my reviews below, but I […]
View into test planning at the release level
View into test planning at the release level One of the common pitfalls of agile teams is “Forgetting the big picture”. Lisa Crispin and I wrote an article for informIT in […]
Upcoming public courses and talks
I’m getting ready to go on a 2 month road trip through Europe and South Africa. I thought I’d put my schedule up here so folks can join me at […]
Graphic Recording of Awareness Session at Agile Testing Days
I attended Rob Lambert’s session “Do agile teams have wider awareness fields” at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany in November this year. The ‘doodle’ I have included in this […]
Testing the Big Picture
One of the top seven success factors that Lisa Crispin and I talk about in the summary chapter of our book Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile […]
Choosing Functional Test Tools for Large Organizations
In one of my tutorials at StarWest 2011, someone asked the question about choosing tools – specifically functional automation tools. I do believe teams should chose the tools that work […]