Lessons From Lean Coffee
Profile: Matt Heusser
One of the roles I play in the little software communities I belong to is a bit of an ambassador. I am approachable, easy-going, and tend to flit about between communities. If people feel like they don't "belong" at a "Agile" event, a "Test" event, or a "DevOps" event, they might know me, and...
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Do you need SAFe, the Scaled Agile Framework?
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A Hard-Core Technical Agile Coach Looks at Froo-Froo Coaching
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Real Process Improvement
Profile: Justin Rohrman
Process improvement in software teams seems harder to come by, and sometimes stops altogether, after the first few tries. We see the exact same phenomenon in exercise. Take a person that has never done anything athletic in their life and introduce them to a barbell and a squat rack. For the...
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Saving The World From Software
Profile: Justin Rohrman
We seem to have gone from software is eating the world to being terrified of being eaten. As if software were a tiger in a pen at the zoo just waiting for someone to fall in and be devoured. The author of this article on The Atlantic thinks engineers need to start thinking about 0 Comments
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Arguing for Return on Investment
Profile: Justin Rohrman
A colleague posted a question in a Skype thread about convincing people they work with about the value of a project. They have some co-workers that are very into 6 Sigma type process, where each aspect of a company is measured and accounted for (or so they think). My colleague was asking for some...
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When Test Management Works
Profile: Justin Rohrman
I had a breakfast meeting today with a local tester / manager type person that has recently decided to venture out and build his own company. He was working as a test manager for a company in another state and over time the company decided that role was no longer necessary. Over his tenure, he...
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The Code Freeze Myth
Profile: Justin Rohrman
A few years ago I was working with a development team at the end of a very long release cycle. About 15 of us were gathered in a meeting room giving our status update. Most of the developers said they were done with implementation and were either waiting for feedback from testers, or were going to...
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Do you Even Lift: Goals for 2017 and Beyond
Profile: Matt Heusser
A few years ago I visited a company in West Michigan that had graphs on all the walls. Graphs everywhere; very impressive.
Then I looked at one.
It was a percentage on on-time...
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Making Process Transformation Work
Profile: Justin Rohrman
How long does it take for process transformation to work? To a reach critical mass at a company for the amount of people that will not just abide by the new rules, but believe in them.
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