On the 18th of May, 2010, the very new tumbler-glass project by Studio Pragmatists uploaded Tumbler 0.2.1 to Maven. Having recently written about JBehave I found myself really liking the concept of behavior driven development. So I decided to write a similar article about Tumbler. If you want the project code its available in my [...]
I wanted to explore the possibility of using JBehave to formalise scrums definition of done. The idea being to encapsulate a definition of done as a JBehave scenario. So in true scrum style I decided to timebox 4 hours of work dedicated to JBehave. From a scrum point of view BDD can be used to [...]
Well perhaps not Nirvana then, but at least having a suitable level of test coverage. I wanted to write an article around the uptake of test driven development. Scrum and agile are hard to do well. If you break these down, you often find that the components are pretty challenging too. TDD is difficult but [...]
I have been reading chapter 12 of Succeeding with agile by Mike Cohn. The chapter title is Leading a Self-Organising Team. I have been reading it in the following context: Strive for technical excellence and Improving technical practices is not optional. Why is it that improving technical excellence is sometimes neglected on a project? Why [...]
Project Management Offices serve no purpose in scrum. You are either a product owner, (not a manager), scrum master (not a manager either) or your in the team, (no technical leaders here either). How can an organisation migrate from central control to self directed scrum teams? What are the challenges to our former project managers?