agileblog 06/01/2009
kanban-for-software-engineering-apr-242.pdf (application/pdf Object) Comprehensive write-up of Lean+Kanban. Heavy but worth reading tags: agileblog, lean, kanban Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Developing software using Scrum – What’s missing?
Scrum/Agile Projects introduce several challenges/forces that are easier to deal with when leveraging agile engineering practices. On a daily basis I see teams struggling with questions around how their engineering practices are compatible, or most of the time incompatible, with the Agile mindset. These teams face two options – Either improve their engineering practices so …
agileblog 05/24/2009
Goals for using Kanban tags: kanban, agileblog Goals for using Kanban Goal 1. Improved performance through process improvements introduced with minimal resistance Goal 2. Deliver with High Quality policies around what is acceptable before a work item can be pulled to the next step in the process focus on quality by limiting work-in-progress Goal 3. …
David Anderson shares Goals for using Kanban
Goals for using Kanban tags: kanban, agileblog Goals for using Kanban Goal 1. Improved performance through process improvements introduced with minimal resistance Goal 2. Deliver with High Quality policies around what is acceptable before a work item can be pulled to the next step in the process focus on quality by limiting work-in-progress Goal 3. …
Custom Fields – Regression
Can you tell off the top of your head (or via a simple query in your issue tracker) what is the regression ratio in your product for a specific version, and where are the regression areas?Chances are, the answer is no. The reason is that out of the box, most issue trackers don’t indicate an …
Custom Fields – Detected In Field
This is a first in a series of small short suggestions on stuff you might want to track in your issue tracer. One of the important ways to measure effectiveness of your quality effort is to understand the ratio of issues detected in the field (versus the whole issue count). To track this, add a …
Edible versions
All you QA people out there – How often does your QA group “choke” on versions delivered by the development group? Are you used to “unedible” versions which just don’t taste right? How about versions which simply come as a blackbox where you have no idea what changed, therefore no idea what to do with …
Orcanos Product Life-cycle Management
A friend refered me to Orcanos QPack. This appears to be another candidate for the Product Life-cycle management segment. The company is based in Israel, and so far I’ve only briefly glanced at their documentation, and it seems interesting. Not much references in Google though… If anyone has looked into this tool and can compare …
Rosie has the test management blues as well…
Rosie Sherry writes a very interesting blog focused on software testing.One of these days I’ll point to some of the interesting blogs I’m reading regularly. In any case, One of her recent posts was “Hunt for Test Case Management System” where she discusses the lack of a killer test management solution, but tries to outline …
QA Effort Effectiveness
How do you know your QA effort is being effective ? Based on the different stakeholders which require input from the QA a typical answer might be that Product quality is high when released to customers. Assuming that is indeed more or less what someone expects (I’d say effective QA needs to answer to some …