Ultimate guide to use metrics to distract your teams and destroy your company

I have had a lot of conversations, with agile people and not, around the topic of measuring success of an…

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5 Easy steps for Testers to Influence Developers

A classic problem for testers in agile contexts is the fact that they feel they are not listened to by…

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What I learned about helping teams use WIP limits

The Work In Progress limit (WIP limit from now on) is one of the most powerful but counter-intuitive concepts I had…

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#NoEstimates episode 2 – THE ANSWERS

A normal person would expect that sharing free content doesn’t create controversy. Well this normal person is wrong. A couple of weeks…

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#NoEstimates a simple experience report

I’ve been practicing #NoEstimates with my teams for the last 2-3 years if you want to know how it worked…

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BDD is – BDD is not

“I’m the smartest man in Athens because I know that I know nothing.” —Socrates 470-399 BC What BDD is (for me)…

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Thin Vertical Slices of Value

I recently had a conversation with two colleagues where I was trying to explain the advantages of frequently delivering thin vertical…

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Agile tester part 2, questions and answers

Warning: The opinions expressed in this post are mine only, please do not use them against any other group of people,…

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The Agile Tester, a curious and empathetic animal

The agile tester (ˈadʒʌɪl/ ˈtɛstə/) is an mammal member of the family “Exploratoris”. He lives in the wild in small…

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