There’s a fascinating email thread started by David Anderson about What would Agile Auditing Look Like?. Part of the discussion stems from what the definition of an audit is. Audits are about compliance to a defined process. Do we need audits? Sure, for some projects. I would very much like to know that any project […]
Want to save time on your next project? Improve working relationships? Understand what contributed to your success–or what didn’t? You’ll need a retrospective to do these things, and if you want a great retrospective, you’ll buy a copy of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. A retrospective provides
A number of people still subscribe to this blog with an email subscription. I had used Bloglet to do process the emails, but the service didn’t always work. And to be fair, Bloglet was a free labor of love 🙂 I’m now using Feedblitz, assuming I didn’t make any mistakes. As always, feel free to
It’s been quite the Monday so far. My office toilet started spewing water, a cabinet door fell off one of the cabinets in the kitchen, and I’m trying to back up and duplicate my hard disk because both latches on my Powerbook broke at the Agile conference and I need to send my computer
Several years ago, a colleague emailed me, asking how to keep sponsors involved. My colleague was using company-mandated phase-gate lifecycle with long project durations (18-24 months). I’d recommended providing a project dashboard and showing the sponsor progress. My colleague was stumped–the dashboard wasn’t particularly helpful until they were in the testing phase and it
If you’ve ever tried to look at my articles page, you know how hard it was to find anything. Well, my updated version of the site is finally up. I have a few broken links, which I expect to fix, hardware willing, in the next week or so. If you find anything broken, do let
A couple of weeks ago at our Managing One-on-One workshop, Esther and I were teaching about how to give feedback. Here’s the “recipe”: Create an opening to deliver feedback. Describe the behavior or result in a way the person can hear. State the impact using “I” language. Make a request for changed behavior. When
Also this week, over at the AYE Conference, my Starting With Rolling Wave Planning is up.
I’ve had technical debt on my mind recently, so I’ve been writing about it. This week, the good folks at Stickyminds published my column, An Incremental Technique to Pay Off Testing Technical Debt. Enjoy!
I was at the Better Software conference last week, met a bunch of great people (including Jim Shore and Joel Spolsky). Another important person is someone who’s not famous–and important nevertheless. A senior tester explained her situation and asked for some help. “Most of our testers can’t read code. And, we don’t know what