I am currently reading the book “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development” by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. This book is full of very interesting material that covers the full spectrum of the software development domain and is the “sequel” of “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and …
This book defines acceptance tests not as the traditional user acceptance tests performed after implementation, but as the tests created by the customer in collaboration with the developer and the tester prior to implementation. Ken Pugh proposes mainly an approach where all project stakeholders will collaborate to create tests that …
Methods & Tools is a free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2010 issue has just been published with the following articles: * Aspects of Kanban – Lean Worfklow Management * Test Language – Introduction to Keyword Driven Testing * A High Volume Software Product Line * …
When friends ask me what is the last trend in software development, I answer Lean. This approach is even easier to describe, because you can take examples outside the software industry and the most famous of them is Toyota. The recent problems faced by the Japanese car manufacturer shows that …
I have just finished reading the great book “Leading Lean Software Development” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and I wanted to share with you two quotes excerpted from it. […] I started a conversation with the question that had been bothering me: “How do you reconcile the lean view that …
I participated on October 12 to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour which was a great success. There were more than 100 participants announced to this free event. Here is a small feedback for three interesting presentations that I attended.
