Interactive Tutorial on Scrum

December 20, 2011

Michael James just posted his Introduction to Scrum video on YouTube. I’d be interested in your views and feedback.

This is the first in a Scrum training series which he will post on Youtube (free to you, of course). With regards to this overview, I think is the right length and depth – it’s not so short as to be trite (or worse, incorrect), but it’s not an exhaustive examination of Scrum either. This video is good prep for people who are planning to enter a CSM class and don’t want to go in cold. It is also good for stakeholders around the company who want an understanding of Scrum so that they can work better with their development teams.

Let me know what you think.

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Poor coders = poor testers?

December 12, 2011

Interesting question from a customer last week as we were discussing continuous integration and testing: Isn’t it likely that someone writing poor code might also write poor and ineffective tests?

My response is “absolutely”. Poor coders are often (maybe not always) poor at writing test cases. The good news is that Agile practices are designed to uncover and highlight issues like this so that they can be addressed. Practices such as Pair Programming, code review, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint review meetings can help overcome such shortcomings, but at the end of the day, there is no magical fix for poor test writing.

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