You know what’s the best way to start the year? Going over success rates of projects! The Standish Group has been publishing the CHAOS report for more than twenty years now. I wasn’t surprised to find that they still use the same criteria for success and failure of projects. Here’s a summary of the CHAOS
My new article “Testing Economics” is now on StickyMinds. It’s based on my Testing Economics presentation. Now if you’ve missed it at NDC London, there’s still hope! I’m going to give the session at the Clean Code Alliance group on Feb 5th. Go ahead and register here. (I’ll possibly give this talk in other venues,
And I’m going to be there, with my To Estimate Or #NoEstimate talk. And co-facilitate the Advanced Agile Programming workshop with Lior Friedman. Did you know that the last Agile Practitioners IL is one of the 50 best Agile conferences in the world? Check out the Vasco’s Duerte (who is also #NoEstimate related) Agile conference
When we think of regression, we think of bugs. That’s the first thing that pops into our minds. As with many other things, there’s a deeper meaning, if we just look closer. We have two kinds of usage for the word regression. We use it to describe a test suite (unit tests, integrgation tests, end-to-end
The current buzz at the agile world is scale. Now that we know that agile looks golden, we want to apply it to everything. Agile started as a development team practice. Extreme programming, Scrum, Feature Driven Development, and others all originated in software development teams. Since they were successful, it made sense to apply those
Is it the cool name? Is it the actual successes? Is it the drawings with lots of loops in them? Might be all, but above all else, there are the perceived (and maybe the not actual) value of agile, that organizations want. Let’s look at those: Reduced waste – When Lean was given its name,
Last month I was in Huib Schoots’ testing workshop. He talked about being asked “What’s the ROI of testing?”. To which he replied “I don’t know, what’s the ROI of management?”. We are really obsessed with ROI, aren’t we? We use it a lot as a tool for decision making, but are we using it
Last time we looked at how things came to be. How things converged around a group of software developers in a ski resort: There were actual experiments in the field with reported successes. There was a funnel for communication to spread those ideas. And now there was a joint vision and a name. The agile
Every time and again, I go back to the “4 ways that agile is declining post” to see if it is still relevant. I don’t get disappointed. Now that I am a full time agile coach, I’m in a kind of a fix. Agile has crossed the chasm, and scrum won as we all know.
This is a must see for everyone on the planet who wasn’t in my session “Testing Economics” at NDC London this week. The others are invited to watch again. It’s about how testing, TDD and other day to day activities impact our time, value and costs. You can watch it here: Testing Economics 101 by