Stop the Line is a retrospective exercise that can be used to learn from problems and prevent them from happening in the future. It's a great exercise when you need to improve the quality of your products or services.
I've been interviewed on InfoQ about the release of my new book What Drives Quality. Book is available on Amazon, Leanpub, my webshop, and major bookstores.
My 2nd book What Drives Quality has been officially released today (September 30). It is now available on Amazon and all other major bookstores.
My 2nd book What Drives Quality is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Leanpub, and my webshop. The book will be released end of September.
In this guest post Ekaterina Novoseltseva explains why Test Driven Development (TDD) is important to get success with agile and explores the benefits that you can get from doing TDD.
To finalize my second book What Drives Quality I’m looking for reviewers. Can you help me? (more…)
Dat er dingen fout gaan is an sich niet zo erg. Het wordt pas echt een probleem als we niet leren van onze fouten. Dezelfde fouten blijven maken, weer dezelfde problemen die voorkomen hadden kunnen worden. Hoe doorbreek je de cirkel?
In this guest blog post on BenLinders.com Andrew Mawson from Advanced Workplace Associates talks about their ongoing research on cognition. The aim of that research is to provide guidelines that help knowledge workers do the right things to maximise their cognitive performance.
Agile teams gebruiken retrospectives om continu te verbeteren. Verbeteracties richten zich vaak op de manier waarop het team samenwerkt om de productiviteit te verbeteren. Uit een retrospective kunnen ook acties komen om de kwaliteit van het product te verbeteren. Bijvoorbeeld door verbetering van de manier waarop er getest wordt.
Agile teams gebruiken retrospectives om hun manier van werken te reflecteren en te verbeteren. Veel Scrum teams sluiten iedere iteratie af met een retrospective. Teams die Kanban gebruiken doen veelal wekelijks een retrospective of doen zo vaak als nodig is een mini-retrospective om van een probleem te leren en in kleine stapjes te verbeteren. Hoe vaak doen jouw teams agile retrospectives?
A new chapter which explores how agile software development can be deployed to deliver high quality software has been added to my second book What Drives Quality.
Regularly I get questions if you can measure defects and if you should measure them. The short answer is: You can measure them, and it can have value to do so, but only if you take action. Quality matters, and defects can provide you with valuable information about the quality of your product, but measuring alone doesn't improve quality. You need to dive deeper to have a good understanding and then act upon that.