May 28, 2011 | In: Agile
A few years ago I would have had difficulty mentioning failure and Agile software development in the same breadth. On the heals of the ever popular manifesto and effective practices such as XP and Scrum, Agile adoption grew, and the more it grew, the more...
January 8, 2011 | In: Agile, Effectiveness
Over the course of the past twenty years or so, the software development community has created or sought axioms, metaphors, techniques, approaches, analogies, processes and other practices (sometimes borrowing them from automobile manufacturing) that...
July 31, 2009 | In: Agile
We, testers, are coming late to the agile party. I would argue that the role of a programmer is first class in Extreme Programming, the role of a team lead first class in Scrum, and the role of the architect first class in Feature Driven Development...
March 5, 2009 | In: Agile
The testing of software products or any software artifact, after the fact (i.e. inspection to find defects versus inspection to prevent defects), adds no value to the business providing the product or customer using the software. In this regard we can...