One of the earliest ideas you learn as an agile practitioner is “Done, Done, Done”. There’s a lot of thinking behind it, but for me it boils down to trust. When you don’t know what “done” means, the next person who gets you’re deliverable might be surprised. As a rule, we don’t like surprises. So regardless
New post on Everyday Unit Testing: A real-life example of risk analysis, and which cases to test. Check it out.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to present at DevGeekWeek. But I do have a slide deck I’ve prepared for it. It was supposed to be presented at the Application Life-cycle Managemenet (ALM) track. And since, we’re dealing with experimentation, let’s use the deck for an experiment: Would you like to attend a webinar about this? Let me know
New post on Everyday Unit Testing, about how we can measure if a test is valuable. Check it out.
At Agile Israel conference, I was recruited to a “Hit The Experts” panel on engineering practices. Ok, I didn’t put too much of a fight. Most of the questions were not of the engineering nature, though. One of the questions went like this: We’ve adapted the Spotify model, and now there’s no specialization, expectations from
I usually make fun of the “become a scrum master in 3 days”. I mean, what can you learn in 3 days? Glad you asked. Once a year or so, I get a chance of going through an exercise with my army unit. These few days are plentiful of agile post material. I’ll try to cram
My new article about refactoring before testing is published on DZone. Enjoy!
A few years back I’ve read The Goal. It was quite late in my agile life, so it wasn’t that eye opener everybody was talking about. It made sense, because I could compare my experience with software projects with the process of learning described in the book. Still, the book was about manufacturing. So I
You won’t get to see me at EuroSTAR this year, but the guys asked me to write something instead, for Test Huddle. Check it out.
You liked the first part, right? Check it out on the “Everyday Unit Testing” blog. More testing economics stuff. While you’re there – get the book!