Technical Debt Open Space – AgilePalooza Boston

Published March 3rd, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Ian Culling hosted an open space session on Technical & Functional Debt at the AgilePalooza in Boston. This is his video debrief of the session.

Acceptance-Test Driven Development – Bring Developers and Testers Together

Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) are powerful techniques, helping developers write better designed, more maintainable and more reliable code, and stay focused on the real user requirements. But how does the rest of the team fit in to the picture? In this talk, John Smart, creator of the Java Power Tools Bootcamp, looks at how BDD techniques, and tools such as easyb and FitNesse, can also act as drivers for the overall development process, and also as communication tools, giving testers and end-users clear and unambiguous feedback on what is being developed and where it is at in terms of delivery and schedule.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/john-smart-acceptance-test-driven-development

A Guided Tour of a Whiteboard Culture

Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

A task board is a familiar sign in companies practicing Agile. This presentation will show how visual communication of information can be used in a number of different ways by all departments to create an open, information rich environment. Such low cost, asynchronous distribution of information transforms organizational culture by promoting openness and building a shared vision. At ElasticPath, Informative Workspaces are used to communicate inside and outside of teams by product development, customer support, professional services, sales, human resources, marketing, operations, and executives.




Produced by Agile Vancouver

An Agile Coach to start Scrum Widely in a Company

Published March 1st, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Starting Scrum in one team is not always easy, you have to teach and involve the whole team to adopt new principles and a new way of working and communicating. Starting Scrum for 20+ teams in 4 countries is really not simple and involves some strategies that are not explained in Scrum certification program.
* Where to start?
* How to explain and avoid confusion across the teams?
* How to be supported by the hierarchy?
* How long will it take?
I’ll detail the way eXo Platform fully implemented Scrum in the past months, sharing our experiences and feedbacks.


Slides of the presentation

Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing

Published March 1st, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use manual mocks for testing. Often times when creating unit tests we need to work in isolation in order to cover the paths we are attempting to test. When we want to test in isolation you can use a testing technique where you mock out your dependencies. When using Mocks you can either do it manually (what we are looking at) or you can use a mocking framework like Rhino Mocks. Either way you achieve the same results.

http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/164


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