In this video, Tim Lister explains the principles of Agile Project Leadership in the framework of the Declaration of Interdependence.
Archive for October, 2007
Tim Lister on “An Introduction to Agile Leadership”
Posted by Christophe on October 31, 2007
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Jeff Sutherland on “Lessons learned from Scrum implementation at Google”
Posted by Christophe on October 31, 2007
Adwords introduced a Scrum implementation at Google in small steps with remarkable … all » success. As presented at the Agile 2006 conference this exemplifies a great way to start up Scrum teams. The inventor and Co-Creator of Scrum will use this approach in building the Google Scrum implementation to describe some of the subtle aspects of Scrum along with suggested next steps that can help in distributing and scaling Scrum in a “Googly way”.
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Dave Astels on “Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development”
Posted by Christophe on October 31, 2007
Test Driven Development (TDD) has become quite well known. Many developers are getting benefit from the practice. But it is possible that we can get even more value. A new practice is getting attention these days: Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
BDD removes all vestiges of testing and instead focuses on specifying the behaviour desired in the system being built. This talk will be focus on Ruby and will introduce a new BDD framework: rSpec. The ideas, however, are language independent
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James Bach on “Becoming a Software Testing Expert”
Posted by Christophe on October 31, 2007
You’re already an experienced tester. You know how to design tests and report bugs. Now what? Do you feel like an expert? Unfortunately, if you want to become very good at testing, there aren’t many classes or programs available to help you. This means you must manage your own education. This tutorial is about finding a path from experience to expertise. It’s based on the context-driven school of test methodology. It focuses on what it means to think like a tester and how to design and critique testing practices (rather than just copy what the “gurus” tell you to do). You’ll also get self-study strategies and methods for developing a colleague network. It’s an ideal tutorial if testing is your career and you intend to excel in it.
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Jeff Sutherland on “Scrum and Not-Scrum”
Posted by Christophe on October 24, 2007
In this video from QCon 06, Jeff Sutherland talks about the “Nokia test” (are you really doing scrum?) and other topics.
He argues that many scrum teams don’t do agile – they fail the Nokia test for iterative development:
- Iterations longer than 6 weeks
- Iterations not timeboxed
- Team tried to finish all specification before programming
- Iterations do not result in workable code
- Iterations do not include testing
He then says that the remaining teams don’t pass the Nokia scrum test:
- The team knows who the product owner is
- The product backlog exists and contains estimates
- The team can generate a release burn-down chart and knows their velocity
- There are no project managers in the project disrupting the work of the team
Those 2 tests combined are just looking if scrum is indeed in place or not, not how high performing teams are.
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Elisabeth Hendrickson on “Agile Testing”
Posted by Christophe on October 15, 2007
Agile testing, by Elisabeth Hendrickso.
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Quote of the day
Posted by Christophe on October 15, 2007
“Management is directing & controlling a process (ie having control); Leadership is influencing & trusting people (ie releasing control)”
–Unknown
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Guy Pshigoda & Hubert Smits on “Planning and Maintaining the Rhythm of Distributed Scrum”
Posted by Christophe on October 14, 2007
Scaling scrum doesn’t work? Nop, nop, nop!
This experience report from agile2007 shows how some people do it. Check the video on infoQ.
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Quote of the day
Posted by Christophe on October 14, 2007
“Management is getting people to do what needs to be done. Leadership is getting people to want to do what needs to be done”
-John Cotter
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Lee Copeland on “Proving Our Worth – Quantifying the value of testing”
Posted by Christophe on October 9, 2007
In this video (August 06), Lee Copeland discusses the definition of testing, how testers focus so much on the process that they ignore the real purpose of testing: “to create information”.
He then inspect the value of testing, and challenges testers to properly quantify this value to their clients, from developers all the way to executives.
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