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Estimates are not commitments!
Cambodia, Phnom Penn, the water festival: Martin Harris Probably one of the most common mistakes in Software Development is to allow Estimates to become Commitments. I am sure you know the following...
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Standing up at your scrum
The scrum stand up meeting, is sometimes renamed to “the scrum”. This is fine but remember you are supposed to stand up. The reasoning behind this is it keeps the meeting short. People do not become...
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Scrum, where exactly do the managers go?
Goa State, India, Lifting the load: Martin Harris Project Management Offices really serve no purpose in scrum. You are either a product owner, (not a manager), scrum master (not a manager either) or...
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Influencing self organised teams
Pink Rose, Beijing: Martin Harris. 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...
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Achieving Test Driven Nirvana
Cuban Car: Martin Harris 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...
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Bad or Good? Behavior Driven Development within Scrum.
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...
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Tumble dried BDD from Studio Pragmatists
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...
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Culture and Agile Adoption
Beach Hut - By Martin Harris More and more I have been thinking about the effect of culture on Agile adoption. Then a friend tweeted this article on Agile Culture by Michael Sahota. Its a real eye...
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Its always about the Client Team
I went along to an Agile Testing in Finance session run by Gojoko Adzic. The session was entitled: Executable Documentation – The Remix. Always a good gig attended by intelligent folk who realised that...
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Ever tried Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds in an existing culture?
I was reading this old article from by Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson. When you look around its still years ahead of what most organisations are doing. Spotify have moved on since too I suspect. So...
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