Arrange to share the experience of laying out the feature or story, with everyone participating, contributing, helping form and guide the experience. Form and keep a true cross-functional team including customer/user/customer representative, business or quality analyst, developer, integrator (which can be a quality engineer, technical lead, or developer dedicated to system integration) You know people form these ‘tiger’ teams in crisis to get things done quickly, why wait till then?
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Don’t Tell Stories, Share the Experience
October 23, 2009
Shifting focus from software testing and development to ensuring customer satisfaction
October 31, 2008
Action 1:
Deliver a newly revised, fully working application with every new feature added. Time delay between features should be measured in a short span of time (days, not weeks) so the code and original purpose and details of the feature is fresh in everyone’s mind. Fully automated build, test and deployment is essential for [...]
Agile Open California Update
October 19, 2007
As an organizer of the Agile Open California Open Space Seminar coming up Monday and Tuesday, I am please to report that the preparations are going smoothly and we have a stellar list of attendees. The theme is :
AO California Theme – Sustainable Agility: Thriving in the Mainstream
I’m hoping to participate in quite a few [...]