An Estimation Experiment
Estimating work (stories) probably is the hardest part in software development. Every team I have seen seemed to struggle with it. Lately, there is lot of talk about #NoEstimates. I …
Whose job is it anyway ?
Teams those newly started with scrum get into the role dilemma of who should do what. This is pretty common since their roles in earlier way of working probably are …
Do you write your stories right?
By now, I hope most of the people who practice agile knows what a user story is. I observed in lot of teams that either they don’t write user stories …
Game – Test small, test often
This is a game to demonstrate Testing small and Testing often is more affective. Take any building blocks. I used Jenga wooden blocks. I chose 36 Jenga blocks and numbered …
Test First Development is like driving a car with GPS
I had this funny thought that what if you have a GPS that tells you that you made a wrong turn only after you made a turn (I know no …
Try first.. then test
Testers who are new to agile software development often struggle to find a way to test the code in smaller pieces. This is mainly because they are trained to test …
Make Your Tele-team Work
Here is the article I co-authored with Lisa Crispin. http://www.stickyminds.com/BetterSoftware/magazine.asp?fn=cifea
Do you understand your “Velocity”?
Velocity is a metric that is used in agile projects to represent how fast a team is building the software. Velocity is number of story points (or what ever the …
True Collaboration!
Last week we had an issue in production. One of the reports was hitting the servers pretty hard. Our “Production support monkey” (all developers rotate this job every sprint) mentioned …
Self-Organization makes ‘Agile teams’ more agile!
We talk about self-organization is one of the most important aspect of agile teams. But what is self-organization and how does that happen? Is it easy or hard to self-organize? …
