Getting The Most From Automated Functional Tests

Published January 23rd, 2012 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Agile teams invest heavily in automated functional tests. When done well, this investment is paid back with fast feedback enabling teams to release software quickly and often. By structuring tests in the right way, teams can further leverage this investment by using these tests as a platform for exploratory testing that could find issues a regression test suite won’t. Read more

Using Kanban to Set up a Scrum Project

Published January 17th, 2012 Under Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

This video shows you how to leverage Kanban to organise your visioning work and what the corresponding Kanban board looks like. Scrum like most other agile methods is silent on the “fuzzy front end” – the early product creation activities that include market research, product planning, and prototyping and are commonly called “visioning.” Read more

Agile Transitions – Things to Consider Before you Start

Published January 12th, 2012 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Agile transitions do not only change how a development team works but how the whole organization is structured, how it behaves and how it runs its product portfolio. This makes the transition have a significant financial risk and can not just be done by sending the team to one two day course. Read more

Can Kanban Avoid Becoming a Management Fad?

Published January 5th, 2012 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

Benjamin Mitchell believes that Kanban risks to become a fad if it does not cover gaps related to experiencing embarrassment and threat. He proposes a solution based on the double-loop learning model. Read more

Tools for Continuous Integration at Google Scale

Published December 21st, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Software engineers rarely invoke compilers and lower-level tools directly. Instead they interact with a build system which analyzes dependency information and then orchestrates the overall build process. Yet build systems are often overlooked by industry and academia. This presents a challenge for large organizations as their code base grows and engineering processes struggle to keep up. This video covers the key insights and technical design elements that enable us to scale the word’s largest continuously integrated code base to thousands of engineers worldwide. Read more


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