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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Refactoring running rampant

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The purpose of refactoring is: Increase the quality of code without changing the functionality of the code. Unfortunately, we too often forg...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Software Development Lifecycle - Testing

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The Software Development Lifecycle: Testing What you see above is the "Test Cycle" as I learned and practiced in Waterfall ...
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Test Coverage

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What you see above is a classical test report as you would expect it within a Waterfall project. Typically, test managers produce such s...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

We're Agile now, we don't do testing any more!

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Scrum only has Product Owner, Scrum Master and Developer. Testing is not part of the Scrum process, so we can eliminate it - and save money...
Monday, December 8, 2014

The most important role in Scrum

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It's a philosophical question: Which role is most important in Scrum? When I went into Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Master class, he st...

The Bottleneck issue

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Are you terrified of going on vacation? Can you already guess all the disasters that will happen when you're out of office for more than...
Friday, November 21, 2014

How agile are we?

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"Hey, we're doing Agile now!" - "We too, but it doesn't work". How often do we hear this? Too often. Not ever...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Slicing and dicing user stories

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To really understand the effect that the Product Owner has on the success of Agile development, it is vital to understand the art of creatin...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Making stories manageable

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As a Human Being , I want to end World Hunger so that there is no more hunger . Wow, I've written my first user story and it's eve...

Six types of Agile Products

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We're Agile now. We don't need a Project Plan any more, we're freed from deadlines and we don't have to work off predefined...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

The Daily Standup - Stick to "DONE"

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I've seen it happen times and again: When Waterfall projects turn Agile, people are unfamiliar with what they should do in the Standup,...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Incremental Design at it's worst

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Is this a representation of your system architecture? What does Incremental Design actually mean, how does it come into being and what ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

The "Project Manager" Game

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Project managers are important contributors in Waterfall projects and there is an incredible weight on their shoulders. Good project manage...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Seven deadly sins of Agile

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In theology, a deadly sin is believed to destroy the life of grace and charity within a person and thus creates the threat of eternal damna...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Agile Cargoism

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In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people.  During the war, they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the ...