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…
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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…
How to Invest Less and Make More From Your Software Projects
As the saying goes, “Cash is king.” It doesn’t matter how good your P&L or balance sheet looks or how good the business case for…
The Most Useful Release Burn-up I’ve Seen Yet
I often advise teams against using a release burn-up (or burn-down) chart because I’ve seen too many managers try to use them as a stick…
Trust
Esther Derby has a good post this morning about how trust is embedded in a context. She writes, “The sort of trust that you need…
Kill the Office, or Fix It?
A recent essay in Wired says, “The traditional office, meanwhile, remains a black hole of interruptions, procrastination, and soul-crushing politics. According to Gloria Mark, an…
Surviving Rewrites
It seems like fully half the projects I come across are rewrites in one form or another. It ought to be common knowledge by now…