From Scrum to Kanban
You can add more flexibility to Scrum Sprint planning process, but introducing a kanban appraoch to development. Many feel that Sprints are artificial points, and to a degree that is right. BUT business expects markers for review and reporting, so amore practical approach is to apply kanban within Scrum framework. More team availability required, and [...]
The Agile Pretence
I recently did a session at a UKTMF event (UK Test Managers Forum) on modern practical Agile, and the dangers of following the misleading buzzwords and explanations around it. I didn’t use this document in the end, though my research was great learning curve and challenged my own assumptions. Feel free to read and download [...]
MDD
Well, I wanted Specflow to be magic, but sadly it is at best a good-looking text editor. It constriction to .NET makes the pseudo-code generation easier for the product, but it failed spectacularly with any other Visual Studio integration. Which made it all seem a bit pointless. You could create Features, you can generate pseudo [...]
Behaviour Driven Development
Following recent experience with Agile Methodology BDD – I was impressed by how this appraoch provided tighter bond between user story and resulting code. And with maintenance in mind – every time a new story added or amended, these changes propogate down through to source code level. BDD also provides the clear scope for testing, [...]
Agile’s offspring – BDD
A lot of focus on Agile is around SCRUM, but thought worthwhile to cover other Agile methodologies. BDD (Behavior Driven Development) is a second-generation, outside-in, pull-based, multiple-stakeholder, multiple-scale, high-automation, agile methodology. It describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the delivery of working, tested software that matters. As name suggests it is [...]
