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From Waterfall to Agile: A ScrumMaster’s View
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In less than one year, a leading software company's product team transitioned from a twenty-five year history of waterfall development to using agile methodologies. They had produced software the old-fashioned way—sequentially, firmly entrenched in the process and procedure of pure... |
Andrew Montcrieff, Veritas
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Product Backlog Refinement: Grooming Your User Stories
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The Scrum Guide describes Product Backlog Refinement as “the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog.” New and even experienced agile teams often underestimate the importance of well-groomed stories and find the process of reviewing numerous stories... |
Becky Moshenek, ANCILE Solutions
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Large-Scale Agile Test Automation Strategies in Practice
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After providing an introduction to several key agile testing concepts—including the Automation Triangle and the Test Automation Quadrants—Geoff Meyer discusses approaches to effectively deliver automated testing. Geoff shares practical insights and demonstrates how they were employed... |
Geoff Meyer, Dell, Inc.
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Well Begun Is Half Done: Creating Dynamic and Living Team Charters
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Aristotle once stated, “Well begun is half done.” However, many agile initiatives suffer from a feeble launch. So how can we increase the likelihood of success for a team or organization? By developing a sound team charter. Beginning with the end in mind, we use retrospective techniques to... |
Linda Cook, Project Cooks, LLC, and Chris Espy, SolutionsIQ
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The Agile Testing Survival Guide
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As innovative businesses reduce their time-to-market and shorten release cycles, the need for continuous delivery methods becomes inevitable. Testers are constantly asked to rapidly and reliably deliver comprehensive test results in ever-decreasing or continuous cycles. Meanwhile, testing... |
Ingo Philipp, Tricentis
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The Next Decade of Agile Software Development and Test
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After almost fifteen years of history with agile practices, J.B. Rainsberger sees some alarming trends in our attitudes, practices, and even what we teach about agile. At the same time, he sees some progress in approaches and technologies—e.g., behavior-driven development, naked... |
J.B. Rainsberger, JBRAINS.CA
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The Tester’s Role in Agile Planning
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All too often testers passively participate in agile planning. And the results? Important testing activities are missed, late testing becomes a bottleneck, and the benefits of agile development quickly diminish. However, testers can actively advocate customer concerns while helping to... |
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
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Comcast XFINITY Home: An Agile Case Study
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Today's mobile application development is a complex endeavor made more difficult by teams often working at cross purposes. Separation of roles and responsibilities leads to intricate technological and personnel dependencies that makes projects challenging. Mark Hashimoto shares personal... |
Mark Hashimoto, Comcast
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User Stories: From Fuzzy to Razor Sharp
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User stories are the basis for products built using agile development. User stories are relatively short, comprised of enough information to start the development process, and designed to initiate further conversation about details. Short doesn’t necessarily mean useful. Ambiguous stories... |
Phil Ricci, Agile-Now
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SAFe Integration Patterns: Scaling with Continuous Collaboration
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“Going agile” at a fifty-person startup is easy; at a 5,000 person ISV it’s impressive; and in a Fortune 500 company it’s often a nightmare. At large scale, the sheer number of legacy systems, stakeholder specific tools, and governance processes can turn even a simple agile deployment... |
Jeff Downs, Tasktop Technologies
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