Oh, what a rush! So many people overcrowded the room, it seems so many have problems with estimates! But that didn’t deter them, they got through playing with dice and arguing about cheeses. Got very good feedback, and if you want – I can do it in your venue. Just click the Contact link. In
It’s Nordic Testing Days time again! And this time I’m wearing my agile hat (The TDD hat gets a rest until ExpoQA two weeks later). I’m going to talk about the dreaded planning session. Or in other words – estimates hurt so much, can we stop? Well, if you’re lucky, the answer would be yes
It’s great coming back to Agile Testing Days. After the “Spring and Integration Testing” tutorial, I gave a workshop on estimations. Ok, some #NoEstimates as well. Here are the slides:
Had a blast presenting at Agile Manchester. Attached is a killer pony. And the slides below.
A story from my Clean Code class. The class exercises revolves around different aspects of the game Tic-Tac-Toe. I like this game as a platform for exercises: It doesn’t seem to need any requirement specification. People know the game, and assume that they know exactly how they need to code it. Most of them skip
So what’s up?” “Well, we’re really glad that you’re helping us with TDD, and we see a lot of progress. People not only continue to write tests, they get annoyed when others don’t.” Excellent. And we’re meeting today because…? “The tests people are writing are good, and they definitely increase the coverage, but we’re so
To finalize the series on stress and agile, let’s talk about what we can do to lower distress. But who are “we”? Leaders and managers are responsible and accountable for creating a safe work environment, that allows individuals to feel respected and motivated. We should make it safe to discuss the messy stuff. It maybe
Last time we talked about eustress (the good kind of stress) and distress (the bad kind). How does one turn into another? And what can we do to stay on the light side, rather than turn to the dark side? The stress we feel is in our head. We translate how we see the environment around
“Me, and everyone I know who started doing agile, are stressed”. If you ask around, people are feeling a bit more stressed than before the big agile arrived. Why is that, and is good, bad or ugly? Now, where is this stress coming from in agile teams? In the good ol’ days of waterfall,
Last time we talked about the different mechanisms and practices we put in place in order to get us to working software, the main metric in agile delivery. We talked about how “working software” means not just that software is functional, it’s built to last. One of the most effective of these practices is code