Published: What Drives Quality
My 2nd book What Drives Quality has been officially released today (September 30). It is now available on Amazon and all other major bookstores.
What Drives Quality available for pre-order
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.
Guest blog: The Importance of TDD in Agile Development
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.
Reviewers needed for What Drives Quality
To finalize my second book What Drives Quality I’m looking for reviewers. Can you help me? (more…)
Waarom leren we niet van onze fouten?
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?
Guest Blog: Cognition … what’s it all about?
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.
Verbeter Testen met Agile Retrospectives
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 Retrospectives: Hoe vaak doe je ze?
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?
Chapter on Agile added to What Drives Quality
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.
Should you measure defects?
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.
Workshop Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives in Sydney, Australia
In this workshop you will learn how to scale agile retrospectives, doing them with multiple teams from a project, product or organization, practice facilitation skills with different retrospective exercises, and learn how you can introduce and improve retrospectives. You will also learn to do agile self-assessments and readiness checks and to design and facilitate retrospectives that help organizations to increase their agility.
Increasing Software Quality with Visual Management
One of the principles from agile and lean software development is transparency. Making things visible helps teams to decide what to do and to collaborate effectively with their stakeholders. It can also help to increase the quality of software. This post provides ideas how you can do that.