I’ve been asked about TDD and BDD by a few people over the last couple of weeks, so I thought I’d post a couple of summaries and some useful links. Let’s start with TDD. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a development approach, not testing as many think of it. As Dan… Read More »What is Test-Driven Development?
“A picture is worth a thousand words”. In many cases that hundred year old adage proves to be true. In fact, I thought of that saying the other night when I was lying on the sofa in my living room. I was looking up at the ceiling when I remembered… Read More »A picture is worth a thousand words
The weather forecasters said we were in for days of rain but Saturday, the day of the conference, would be fine. Friday saw a deluge and soaked everyone to the skin. Surely the Agile on the Bench conference wasn’t going to be a wash-out? But we always have sun. Even… Read More »Agile Glasto
How do you fancy reading 450 pages on earthquakes, the spreading of diseases, climate change and terrorism? Quite. I groaned too. But Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction is a page-turner. He manages to mix history with a variety of topics in a… Read More »The Signal and the Noise
“Overpriced, far away and unsure of what I’m going to get”. That’s what many people think about agile conferences. So Emily Webber and I set out to address these problems with Agile on the Bench goes Camping, and we reckon we’ve nailed it. The conference costs £35 a ticket (including lunch,… Read More »Only two weeks away
I’ve always been a believer that, rather than focusing on scaling agile, you should just focus on being Agile. However, over the last few years, a number of frameworks have emerged with the aim of ‘scaling’ Agile. SAFe and LeSS are two such examples of scaling frameworks. Scrum.org has now… Read More »Scaled Scrum is just Scrum
In my recent post, I talked about Dan Vacanti’s take on Kanban charts. Some of his beliefs mean that our legacy charts are no longer workable. So what can we use to track dates, view scatterplots, check arrival vs departure rates, etc? Vacanti’s company has built a tool called ActionableAgile… Read More »Actionable Agile Analytics
I can hear myself saying it now: “If you count up the number of work items in each column, and keep a record of each item’s start and end date, then you can create a CFD [Cumulative Flow Diagram], control chart and histogram”. Apparently I was wrong. Apparently nearly all… Read More »We’ve been doing it all wrong!
Many of you will be familiar with Jeff Patton’s explanation of iterative and incremental using the Mona Lisa. I’ve used it many time to explain the difference between iterative and incremental. But I’ve always thought there’s a better analogy out there. I’ve also wanted to compare to a big bang… Read More »Incremental or iterative?
Last weekend I was chatting with my Dad about his current work project, and our conversation led me to start thinking about pair programming and pairing in general. The idea of pair programming was popularised from the early days of eXtreme Programming or XP. The book Extreme Programming Explained written… Read More »Is pairing just for developers?
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