How to Give a Great Sprint Demo
Exciting. Entertaining. Do these words describe your sprint demo meetings? Or are boring and unfocused more accurate? I can’t believe how many times I’ve come…
Author: Richard Lawrence
Longtime co-owner of Agile For All, Richard left in October 2020 to co-found Humanizing Work.
He trains and coaches people to collaborate more effectively with other people to solve complex, meaningful problems. He draws on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, and political science. Richard is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, as well as a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. His book, Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber, was published by Addison-Wesley in 2019 (for more information, visit bddwithcucumber.com).
Continuous Deployment
I’ve written before about the amazing financial impact of releasing more often. And I know from personal experience the positive impact that frequent releases have…
WatiN Patterns #2: One Assertion and a Name to Match
One way to keep your WatiN tests maintainable is to keep them small and focused. WatiN Pattern #2, then, is a way to do just…
7 Tips for a More Effective Daily Scrum
The main purpose of the Daily Scrum is for team members to make and follow-up on commitments to one another that work towards the team’s…
WatiN Patterns #1: No Browser Left Behind
In my previous posts on WatiN, I lamented the shortage of online documentation and resolved to do something about it by documenting the patterns I’ve…
Another Look at WatiN
At my current client, we’ve decided to use WatiN, largely for the C# vs. Ruby reason I discussed earlier this week. After spending a week…
Agile Product Management Boot Camp
Bob Hartman and I are offering an Agile Product Management Boot Camp course March 9-10 in Denver. If you’re a product manager, product owner, business…
Web Testing for .NET Teams: WatiN or Watir?
I’ve noticed a pattern with several of my .NET clients who want to get into automated acceptance testing for web applications. They like the idea…
Denver APLN Meeting Next Tuesday (Jan 20)
Denver’s new APLN chapter is having our first proper (i.e. non-planning) meeting next Tuesday. Date: January 20, 2009 Time: 6:30pm Location: Sigis Cabaret room in…
Follow me on Twitter
I’ve decided to experiment with Twitter as a way to post more often than the once or twice a week I do here and to…
Short Answers #2: What to Focus on in 2009
It’s officially a series now. In this Short Answers video, I answer the question, “If my Scrum team could work on one thing in 2009,…
New Benjamin Zander Video – “How Fascinating!”
There’s a new Benjamin Zander video over at the Pop!Tech conference website. There’s some overlap with the video from TED I posted back in June—most…
UI Sketches for Distributed Teams
In the same way that user stories help focus a software team’s work around business value, starting construction of a user story with the UI…
Short Answers #1: When Stories Are Larger Than Planned
I’m experimenting with video for what is likely become a new series here. In these “Short Answers” posts, I’ll answer an agile question in about…
Are the Product Owner and ScrumMaster’s Interests Opposed?
The Chief Engineer role in the Toyota Product Development System combines parts of the Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and senior technical team member roles from Scrum.…
Motivated Individuals
As agile approaches the mainstream, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the core principles, especially this one: Build projects around motivated individuals. Give…
Risk
If you’re an IT executive, which is less risky? Investing a little bit in an effective agile adoption, something that’s been proven at other companies…
Agile Architecture – Neither BDUF nor Chaos
I’m often asked how architecture works on agile software projects. It’s a big question, but the core answer, I think, is this: Neither a big,…
Free Agile Product Management Seminar – Nov 11, Denver
I’m hosting a free seminar on Tuesday, November 11 from 1:00-2:30 PM in the Denver Tech Center area. Please join me there and spread the…