AYE Conference Next Week!

The AYE Conference is next week and I’m very, very excited about it! I will be there, doing several sessions. Dave Smith and I are doing a session on Renegotiating where participants will be playing the “Renegotiate” game – a game that Dave and I created. I will also be running my WordCount . . . → Read More: AYE Conference Next Week!

From the Mailbox: TDD and Automated Testing

A reader asked: “I am hoping that you can answer my question to clarify something for me and another co-worker. Could you tell me the difference between TDD and Automated Testing? He says that TDD is for unit testing and Automated Testing is for System test. He also says Scrum doesn’t include anything . . . → Read More: From the Mailbox: TDD and Automated Testing

Oh, the irony…

So I’m working on course materials for a class I’ll be teaching next week on Acceptance Test Driven Development.

I decided to try using Keynote on my trusty no-longer-all-that-new Mac instead of PowerPoint. I find PowerPoint on the Mac incredibly annoying. Whenever I want to edit a presentation on the Mac that I created on . . . → Read More: Oh, the irony…

AA-FTT: the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program

I’m back from the first event sponsored by the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program. We held a visioning workshop in Portland, OR on Thursday and Friday of last week. While we generated a lot of great ideas and began hammering out a direction for the future, I think the real results of the . . . → Read More: AA-FTT: the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program

RubyFIT and Fitnesse

At the moment, I’m creating a little Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) demo. I’m keen on Ruby these days, so I wanted to do it all in Ruby. And I wanted to use Fitnesse. And as it happens, Fitnesse supports RubyFIT. Or RubyFIT supports Fitnesse. Something like that. So I . . . → Read More: RubyFIT and Fitnesse

From the Mailbox: How Much Visibility is Too Much?

A long time reader wrote to me asking what I thought of the idea of letting management have full access to an internal bug tracking system. He said that the idea made him nervous, but that others were pushing for it.

This person works in a traditional, non-Agile environment, one that has historically practiced information hiding.

But . . . → Read More: From the Mailbox: How Much Visibility is Too Much?

Agile Open California

This year, I’ve attended two small Open Space conferences, AONW and CITCON in Dallas. Both were incredibly valuable events. I learned a lot, I got to participate in some great conversations, and I met a variety of people with whom I’ve continued to connect.

(And some of those reconnections have been pleasantly serendipitous. While . . . → Read More: Agile Open California