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Foundation Series: Inside A Scrum Sprint

Posted on: August 24, 2010

People who already use Scrum will only find one new thing in this article – a way to communicate what happens inside a sprint that has proven effective for me. People who are new to Scrum who wonder “how do things work inside a sprint?” will see how things work […]

Agile / Ishikawa Diagram / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Testing

Failure To Launch (Your Product)

Posted on: February 19, 2009

Jump forward in time to the day of your next big product launch (first release, new features, new market segment, etc). And your site/application crashes due to the “unexpected” demand. All you can do now is look for a bucket of water to put out the fire. What could you […]

Communication / Consulting / Design / Outsourcing / Software development / Testing

Making Offshore Design Work

Posted on: May 14, 2008May 17, 2008

When companies first start off-shoring, they usually send the “low level” implementation work overseas first, to work out the process kinks and manage risk. Over time, your valued, domain-aware developers will perceive a lack of career opportunities with this limited role. Naturally, you will want to consider sending design work […]

Communication / Consulting / Outsourcing / Software development / Testing

Making Offshore Development Work

Posted on: May 5, 2008May 14, 2008

Economic pressures are driving most companies in high-developer-salary markets to explore using offshore development teams as part of their approach to developing software. Developing software with a global team presents new challenges as well as new benefits. If you do it right, you can have a more cost-effective team. If […]

Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Test Automation / Testing / UX

You Are Creating Bugs In Your Software

Posted on: January 14, 2008January 15, 2008

No matter how good your quality process is, you are introducing bugs. This article reviews the places where bugs are introduced in the software development process (from stakeholders to users), and reviews ways to address those bugs.

Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Software development / Testing

Why You Should Test Your Requirements

Posted on: January 9, 2008

We’ve written before about several characteristics of well written requirements, and one of those characteristics is testability. Ahamad has written an list of 10 tests of requirements, with an emphasis on assessing the testability of the requirements. The testability of the requirement determines if the resultant product can be tested […]

Software development / Test Automation / Testing

Test Smarter, Not Harder – Part 3

Posted on: January 2, 2008December 23, 2007

This series is a reprint of an article by Scott Sehlhorst, written for developer.* in March 2006. A recent article on dailytech about “new” methods for software testing points to some very interesting research by the NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) Information Technology Lab. We’ve split the […]

Software development / Test Automation / Testing

Test Smarter, Not Harder – Part 2

Posted on: December 27, 2007March 9, 2008

This series is a reprint of an article by Scott Sehlhorst, written for developer.* in March 2006. A recent article on dailytech about “new” methods for software testing points to some very interesting research by the NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) Information Technology Lab. We’ve split the […]

Software development / Test Automation / Testing

Test Smarter, Not Harder – Part 1

Posted on: December 25, 2007March 9, 2008

This series is a reprint of an article by Scott Sehlhorst, written for developer.* in March 2006. A recent article on dailytech about “new” methods for software testing points to some very interesting research by the NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) Information Technology Lab. We’ve split the […]

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