I found myself with two free days in Copenhagen, no family commitments and no work commitments, so I decided to make a personal commitment. I declared these two days a […]
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Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests, By Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden The first thing I noticed when I opened the book to the Table […]
Read MoreAgile testing is not a methodology
This year at the EuroStar conference in Dublin, I was asked to do a 5 minute “Soap Box” talk. To me, that meant that I could do a little rant, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Read MoreDistributed 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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