What is it? If you’ve been a tester in an agile team you’ve probably experienced Scrummer-fall like behavior. The challenge is to how best describe it. One way is to look at your activity chart. If on day 1-8 of a 10 day sprint you’ve been largely idle and waiting for code to “show up” […]

As you may or may not know, I’m an active agile coach. While I have a wonderful day job, I often get asked to enter new teams and jump-start them or assess their overall level of agile-ness. One of the ‘smells’ that I look for in a strong and healthy agile team is what I’ll […]

I’m going to do something strange in this article. I’m going to ask you to read another article first. The topic is Agile Chartering, but I think that may not have been the best of titles. Truly the article is about a group of agile teams who found themselves in a bit of a mess […]

Continuing on with end-to-end planning techniques within agile contexts – Crystal Blitz Planning Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal method gets very little attention in the agile community. In many ways it’s one of the forgotten agile methodologies. So it hasn’t been well received as a method, but I like to “mine” Crystal for techniques and ideas to […]

It was around 2004-2006 that I started to connect the dots between some traditional, but low-fidelity, planning techniques I’d been using and agile, or XP at the time, release planning techniques. I think it was the Kent Beck & Martin Fowler book that explored agile planning beyond the individual iteration. Fast forward to today, and […]