Amazon.com started by selling books. Their initial use case was “Sell books online.” The vision was always “Sell everything” – hence the name. But they started with a simple use case and evolved it.
Agile / Business Analysis / Process Improvement / Project Management / Requirements gathering
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Burndown Bullied Into Business Analysis
Burndown is a technique used in Scrum projects for tracking the progress within or across sprints. It is an exciting way to track how a team is progressing against a deadline – and we can apply it to any form of project-status. In this article, we will apply it to […]
Agile / Process Improvement / Software development / Software requirements specification / Test Automation / Testing
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Insight Into Test Driven Development
James Kovacs shares a great insight on software testing and the software testing process. His epiphany about test driven development makes it obvious to all of us why this technique is so powerful.
Agile / Software development
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Seven Core Elements of Agile
Mishkin Berteig at Agile Advice writes an excellent essay on the seven core practices of being agile. Understanding these elements is the first step in getting past the hype and fud of the agility dilemna. Promoters of particular agile practices, as well as detractors use hyperbole and extreme examples to make their points. While very effective techniques for arguing, inspiring and motivating, hype and fud detract from learning, teaching and understanding.
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Making Agile Offshore Teams Work
Agile processes stress communication and colocation. Splitting a team into on and offshore resources inhibits the first and prevents the second. Teams struggle to resolve this apparent conflict of interest. Applying best practices (for any team) to address these challenges makes it possible. Martin Fowler provides us with great guidance based on years of experience with his company.
Agile / Prioritization / Project Management
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Agile Prioritization and Tracking
Stealing a couple cool ideas for managing project priorities with something you can touch.
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Agile Argument
Another challenge to a premise of agile comes in a well assembled argument from Tony at Seilevel, in his article, Agile…again.
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Software development
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Product Managers Are Critical To Success
The product manager role is strategic. Product managers identify valuable problems in the market and determine which of them should be solved with software. They create a vision and strategy for solving those problems. Everything else happens in that context. James Shore has written a post on the importance of […]
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Foundation Series: Functional Testing of Software
Functional Testing, also referred to as System Testing of software is the practice of testing the completed software to confirm that it meets the requirements defined for the software. A functional test is typically a test of user interactions, but can also involve communication with external systems. We contrast functional testing with unit testing. We also show how functional testing provides different benefits than unit testing.