The Simple Math Behind TDD?

For those who have followed this blog or read the book, you might know that I called Chapter 13 of SSA “Concurrent Testing” and not TDD (Test-Driven Development). I talked about TDD in the book, but I didn’t specifically prescribe it. TDD says:

Write the test
Run it and watch it fail (meaning build it permanently into [...]

Reaching the Agile Enterprise Tipping Point – A Workshop

Recently, I’ve been working with a number of large companies who are reaching the agile enterprise tipping point. In most cases the development teams or some outside agents have introduced agile as a potential solution to a host of problems – productivity, quality, time to market, whatever – but the managers and [...]

More on the Agile Release Train – Internal vs External Releases

In a number of posts, including Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture(5) The Release Revisited I’ve commented on the desirability of separating Internal Releases (or Potentially Shippable Increments) from External or General Availability Releases. Although not directly represented in the Big Picture itself, this is the assumption behind the Agile Release Train graphic in [...]

Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture (14a): On Agile Portfolio Management and the Legacy Mindset

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing post (see the Big Picture Category on this blog ) we have been working our way from the bottom (stories, iterations and the like) [...]

More on Agile Product Managers and Product Owners

In a recent post, How to be the Ultimate Agile Product Team, Jennifer Fawcett opines on the evolving roles of agile project managers, agile product managers and agile (and traditional) product managers in a fast growing ISV/Embedded systems environment.
Like some others, Jennifer has concluded that the Product Manager role in an agile environment continues to [...]

Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture (13 continued): Estimating Epics

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing post (see the Big Picture Category on this blog ) we have been gradually working our way from the bottom (stories, iterations and the [...]