Agile 2011
The Agile 2011 conference is over. The content and networking were both amazing. Some take-aways are listed below:TechnologiesI need to learn RubyLearn CucumberPlay with Vagrant (thanks Patrick Debois...
View ArticleFollow-on stories to spikes
One of my ScrumMasters presented the following scenario about spikes:Our team lead asked me about this and I wasn’t sure how to answer him. So I hope you can help. We have a case where we have a spike...
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Measuring Partial Points
I measure Scrum teams using a spreadsheet inspired by Scott Downey's RoboScrum. One key indicator I watch for is partial work. To illustrate how this indicator is used, I will tell a story.Sound...
View ArticleWindows Registry-based Idempotence Check with Chef
ProblemYou are using Chef with Windows (that is a problem in itself!) and are using powershell to install programs using a specific user account with winrm.How do you ensure idempotence?SolutionThere...
View ArticleMaturing from Done to Ready
This isn't a new topic. It's been talked about for a few years now. I had a team lead ask me this week about maturing from getting your stories "done done" to getting them "ready." The source of his...
View ArticleWhy I Love Go
I was just reflecting a bit on why I like Go (from ThoughtWorks Studios). I had previously been using Jenkins (which I love), and while I still love Jenkins and would happily use it again, here are...
View ArticleJBoss Command-line Deploy/Undeploy
I was creating a Chef cookbook to deploy a .war file to JBoss AS 7.1. One iteration of refactoring had me using the command-line tools provided with JBoss to do the deploy/undeploy. Ultimately, I...
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Tell me when my cukes are done
So your test suite takes a few minutes to run. That is valuable time to go check Twitter. Of course, you don't want to get sucked too far into the Twitterverse and want to only read tweets while rake...
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Fire drill, followed by "Why isn't this done?"
The ProblemInterruptions in your work are very costly. They usually come in the form of an expedited request to satisfy the craving of some stakeholder. If the craving is local to that stakeholder,...
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