Happy New Year to all, I had an interesting conversation the other day with the CFO of a major public school system in Georgia. We were talking about process ...
... Alan, I'm glad you (and Ron Jeffries) found this useful. I hope the original questioner did too. I have gotten a lot of benefit from the good ideas you've...
thanks for the feedback Nancy. I am glad you are pointing out the technical difficulty and some solutions. I guess one of the major questions that QA have is:...
... That's a great question Luis, and one I get all the time from teams I coach. The shortest answer is this: QA is the ally of the Product Owner, helping the...
Hi NAncy & Alan, This is a great idea for dramatizing the issue for students with their active effort. Slack! I will add that too and give credit of course. ...
Mary, Wouldn't the elimination of a Type 1 testing be dependent on the domain. If you were the system integration lead of an assembly of custom built parts - ...
Thanks Robin. That's really useful stuff. The concrete examples are going to help me plenty. One of the things that I've been thiniking about while reading...
Hey Nancy. Thanks for your comments they're very useful (as always my wise friend :) You know, I've just realised that I've just done something exactly like...
Hi, My thought would be that the Hero of the Book, Steve, would demonstrate Leadership skills: "Level 5 leader" as described in the book "Good to Great" by Jim...
A good articulation of the QA role, specially the partnership with the product owner. I hear the term exploratory testing lately, I'll try to research it. I...
Try looking at the site www.tocforeducation.com. Theory of Constraints is about focus. Lean is the usual toolbox for TOCers to look for solutions to the...
Hi, More into agile: www.*agile**professor*.com A google on "agile teacher" gets quite a few results. More below: ... "Lean in the education process" is...
Luis, Your question is rather broad, so a little hard for me to answer. Basically, I'd say I take any practices or techniques and look at each on its merits...
Vic, What Eurpean companies allow more fun? I work for one, and it has the most rules of any company I have ever worked for. I would be careful about...
Steve, An approach used in the Systems Engineering domain is to produce a "tolerability scale": Negligible Marginal Critical Catastrophic Deciding the units of...
Hi, I'm not arguing for or against your case, and I did not generalize. Read it again. I reported one example for a Tianjin local. We're all well frogs of one...
Hey Vic, I would say this statement: European companies are more relaxed, and allow more fun. is a generalization is it not? That's the statement that got me ...
Hi, I reported, so you're aiming to shoot the messenger. Consider that. A Chinese manager with years of experience in Tianjin, is describing first hand...
Hi Glen, Sorry for the late reply - I'm still on holiday. I don't think it's that useful to quibble about what kind of testing falls into what category. The...
Hey Ramshanker, Thanks for your note. You're points are valid and useful to me. I'm not quite sure at this stage whether it will be Steve or one odf his team...
Oh, I neant to say, if you or anyone would like a copy of the book then I should have a new draft coming ouit in the next month or so. Send me an email. You...
Mary, One thing I've learned through the Lean initiatives in DOE, DoD, and NASA is there is starting point is different than the agile software developers ...
... More than a stretch. For one thing, there's hardly anything new in Agile. Test-driven, maybe. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com I must create a system, or...
Ron, In spite of the Ecclesiastical platitudes to the contrary, there really are new things under the sun, the question is "new since when?" You say there is...
What's new was to invert the relationship between "thinking and doing". Start from the individual and pair and work up to the management process. All other...
Matt, It's very popular to be self-denigrating about the "nothing new of agile." The Agile movement of XP was completing counter-culture in some domains - ...
... Well, I am sure that _somebody_ has been doing something right for a longer time than me. But what might be considered new is that it is coming into the...
(responding to Alan) ... Perhaps new to the mainstream, but we were doing it in 1991 - automatically finding, fetching, compiling and running the latest ...
