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Blog postLast week, Specflow and I organised an interactive webinar. For posterity, and anyone crazy enough to do something similar in the future, here’s a quick summary. Read on to learn how we facilitated it, what worked well, what worked badly, and some ideas how to do it better. TLDR summary: we got 500 people to try collaborating over Zoom and Miro. Miro more or less held its ground, but I feel as if we broke Zoom. With a few tweaks I’d use Miro again next time, but perhaps look for a different vid
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Blog postOur industry is full of oriental phrases and loanwords to describe strategies for wicked problems. From Kanban and Gemba, to Shu-Ha-Ri and Poka-Yoke, a far-east sounding name suddenly seems to bestow authority, and turn an ordinary idea into ancient eastern wisdom. So here’s another one, especially good for problems people say are impossible to solve: Nijute! Although it sounds like some secret ninja technique, don’t bother looking up Nijute in a dictionary. This is actually an acronym: Not Imp
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Blog post“We delivered twenty points this week!” one of the Zoom squares declared in a proud voice. The rest of the grid in the virtual standup (zoomup?) nodded approvingly. This was apparently a big win for the team. Handing out virtual pats on the back would be a killer feature for videoconferences like this one. Yet the person reporting it was lying through his teeth, and everyone else was just going along with the hoax. And this wasn’t just some harmless half-truth, like the tooth-fairy paying child
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Blog postA new enhancement has the potential to significantly expand the reach of Given-When-Then tools, and make them much more inclusive. I’m very excited to see this attempt to improve developer/tester collaboration, and I think anyone using GWT should pay close attention to this experiment. Given-When-Then, without any doubt, won the contest for the most popular BDD example structure. The supporting tools are now well established. Because people are familiar with those utilities, they often try to u
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Blog postI’m very excited to partner with Specflow on a new series of weekly articles. Each week, we’ll post a challenge, explaining a common problem people face when trying to capture examples with Given-When-Then steps. We invite the community to participate. Send your ideas and solutions, and the following week we’ll publish an analysis with answers. Although the articles will be published on the SpecFlow website, they are tool-agnostic. You’ll be able to use most of the ideas with alternative tools,
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Blog postOne of the best things about Specification by Example is how it allows a group of people to quickly get to shared understanding, and collaboratively discover and define exactly what they need to build. Specification workshops are the most effective when everyone is in the same room and has access to the same information. For better or worse, that’s impossible to do in most countries around the world at the moment. So here are some tips on getting the benefits from spec workshops without having
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Blog postIt’s now been ten years since I submitted the final manuscript of Specification by Example to the publisher. In the book, I documented how teams back then used examples to guide analysis, development and testing. During the last two months, I’ve been conducting a survey to discover what’s changed since the book came out. Some findings were encouraging, confirming that the most important problems from ten years ago have been solved. Some findings were quite surprising, pointing at trends that pr
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Blog postHere are the slides, links, books and papers I mentioned in the closing keynote of the Agile Scotland conference in December 2019, on descaling agile. Download slides Parkinson’s Law - article from The Economist New analysis shows problematic boom in higher ed administrators by Jon Marcus, 2014 Official Scrum Guide - current and past versions - from Mitch Lacey’s archive, including the original 13-page version Essential Scrum by Kenneth S. Rubin; 500 pages SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide by Dean Leffi
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Blog postBasic laws of statistics imply that most developers work on average products, supporting usual business workflows, helping the proverbial mill run without too much excitement. Although the right choice for most such products should be to “Choose boring technology” (as Dan McKinley nicely explained), very few teams actually do that. This leads to overcomplicated software that is costly to develop, test and maintain. Over a long run, bad technology choices cause technical debt, require costly mig
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Blog postIf you liked the Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories book, but have trouble juggling all fifty ideas in your head, get them as a convenient reference card deck. It’s now available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, so you can print the cards yourself, adapt them, and even use for commercial work. Download the printable PDF You can also get a printed deck from DriveThruCards.
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