Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tips for automated testing (re-post)

The way this writer expresses himself suggests humility, in the Context-Driven sense.  I think it's worth a read.
https://devver.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/tips-for-unit-testing/

Monday, February 25, 2013

Recommended Reading: ScrumButs are the best part of Scrum

http://www.noop.nl/2009/09/scrumbuts-are-the-best-part-of-scrum.html

Here are some excerpts:

"...there are organizations that adapt Scrum for the wrong reasons, making it half-Agile, or even non-Agile... We might call these adaptations negative ScrumButs. They make a team's performance worse.
"But if you do your retrospectives well, they should lead to positive ScrumButs, making the team's performance better, which is great! It is the best part of Scrum! Scrum is a great starting point for many teams, just like XP and Kanban..."