Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Delight comes as a surprise in unexpected places
Posted by Simon Baker
The other day at the lab I was going about my 'morning constitutional' in the little boys room when I noticed the end of the toilet paper had been folded into a point. You know, just like in hotel room bathrooms. I realized I had a big smile on my face. This simple act by the office cleaner apparently made me happy. I think the fact it surprised me - I so wasn't expecting it - had an amplifying affect on my delight. If you haven't visited our lab, the last thing you'd expect to see was pointy toilet paper.
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Help create business agility. Bake quality in
Posted by Simon Baker
Something common I’ve seen in effective agile teams is that testing has found a new home at the heart of development. I’m not referring to developers doing test-driven development to create code that is simpler in design and has testability engineered into it. I’m referring to testers working among developers doing continuous exploratory testing on vertical slices of stories still in progress.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Governance - Friend or Foe?
Posted by Simon Baker
We’re designing a session about governance in an agile world that will explore a contrarian view of what agile governance can be. It’s called: Governance – Friend or Foe? Basically…
Friday, March 2, 2012
70% Forum
Posted by Simon Baker
Last night we hosted a talk by Kris and Suki at the Energized Work lab. The talk was called 230 Iteration Later and it was a dry run for the QCon conference in London this month.
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