Last week I’ve attended the Agile Testing Days 2012 Conference in Potsdam, Germany. It has been a great conference with great talks from various well known thought leaders. I for myself was invited to talk about 'Sprint Backlog in ATDD’.Every conference has its take away the one thing you take...
Enterprise Team Spike
When faced with new technology or other not well understood programming problems we like to implement a spike. What is a spike? I like the definition from http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/spike.htmlCreate spike solutions to figure out answers to tough technical or design problems. A spike solution is a very simple program to explore...
Multitasking vs a 100% Commitment
I recorded a small webcast to visualize the difference between multitasking and a 100% commitment and how this can lead to functional releases - essentially to being agile!Enjoy,Ralpheffective agile.
Creating an ATDD Ready Sprint Backlog
The arcticle about 'Creating an ATDD Ready Sprint Backlog' can be found here Enjoy,RalphRalph Jocham is the founder of effective agile. GmbH effective agile. believes that agile is more than just working in iterations, doing a daily standup or writing a unit test after the fact.effective agile. believes that people are the most important...
The Separation of Power in Scrum
There is one element in Scrum which I really appreciate. It is the separation of power in Scrum. What exactly do I mean with this? Democracies are based on the separation of powers they require.LegislativeExecutiveJudicativeEach one has their rights and responsibilities. The other two watch out and make sure, that third...
The 1000 students challenge (2)
In May of last year I was able to run my first Pay It Forward Scrum Training at the University of Bern in Switzerland. I had blogged about this event there: The 1000 Students ChallengeLast week-end I had the chance to do the second run at the University of Applied...
Cross-Functionality in Scrum
Scrum recommends that a team should feature all the skills required in order to deliver the releasable product increment by the end of the Sprint. Why is it a good thing to have all the skills needed? It is all about dependencies. We try to design our software systems to be loosely coupled and highly cohesive. The...
The Weight of the Christmas Cake
At my daughters school they organize a charity event every year. There are all kinds of different foods, games and lotteries were you can spent money for the good cause. Since it is a british school the mandatory guessing of the Christmas cake weight must not be forgotten. In Agile...
Agile A3 Sprint Report
I really enjoy working with A3 Reports. They have the habit of making you to distill out the crucial information, to really drill down.There are different kinds of A3 reports. The book 'Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System’ describes three different report types. Problem-, Proposal-, and...
An Agile Transition done Right
A little over a year, I kicked off an agile change program at a leading swiss devices company. Two weeks ago, I had a chance to visit them during an open house on their new premisses.This company was fully committed to walk the talk, they decided to do what needed...