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 […]
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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 […]
Read MoreView 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 […]
Read MoreUpcoming 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 […]
Read MoreGraphic 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 […]
Read MoreTesting 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 […]
Read MoreChoosing 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 […]
Read MoreI am a member of the Community of Thinkers
Jean Tabaka, Liz Keogh and others devised this statement and to me, it expresses the power behind a community of like thinkers. Patrick Wilson-Welsh mentions the idea of Network Weaving on his […]
Read MoreJigsaw Puzzles & Small Chunks – The Ending
I was not able to finish the puzzle I described in the previous blog during the week I was at the cabin, but I decided to finish the story. One […]
Read MoreJigsaw Puzzles & Small Chunks
One of the hardest things I find to get people to understand is how to think in small chunks when it comes to breaking up features and stories. One company […]
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