Archives
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Version Control: Decision
Regarding my previous post on version control, I thought I give a little update on what we finally decided to do.
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Agile Process: Iteration Planning Tweak
On Ward's suggestion we made a change to our iteration planning around the velocity & task sign-up process.
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XP/Agile Universe
Looks like I'll be attending XP/Agile Universe in New Orleans Aug. 10-13. Any other bloggers going to be there?
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Agile QA: Iterations & Release Testing
In discussions with Ward and others in our QA group I'm starting to see another possible arrangement for an agile QA team.
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Ward in the house
We have the great pleasure of having Ward Cunningham on-site this week to help us fine tune our implementation of XP/agile process.
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Agile QA: Customer Advocate
One of the roles we have defined in our agile process is the "Customer Advocate". This is a distinct role from Customer or Customer Proxy in that the advocate is looking after the customer's needs from a quality perspective. The need for an advocate is seen in many agile implementations. The usual symptoms are a customer that needs to do their "real" job or where the customer needs assistance writing appropiate stories and acceptance tests. The advocate him/herself may or may not have any specific domain knowledge.
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What are you currently reading?
ScottW asked What are you reading? For all the reasons he mentioned I think it a good idea.
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Agile QA: 1 Team or 2?
We've been having an interesting discussion internally about whether our development and QA groups should be part of the same agile team or seperate with a half iteration offset. So far we've developed a list of pros and cons to help us decide where to go.