Posts Tagged ‘agile’

These days we are preparing next year’s CMMI Level 5 reassessment and delivered a series of training about CMMI. So people are easy to compare CMMI and Agile when we were doing training. And somebody will say they are different and conflict. How can we implement them together? So what is the difference between CMMI […]

My team recently received a couple of very interesting burndown charts from our previous sprint, and we’ve had a very good discussion on how this happened. We’re feeling this case could be very convincing evidence to support that using Story Points to estimate is better than using actual hours. Before we look at the charts […]

To better understand the article, it’ll be great if you have some basic idea about sellenium and tellurium. As quoted from Tellurium website: The Tellurium Automated Testing Framework (Tellurium) is a UI module-based automated testing framework for web applications. The UI module is a collection of UI elements you group together. Usually, the UI module […]

Read this interesting post from Agile: In a Flash http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/2010/06/agile-roles.html about Agile Roles.  If you are working with an agile software development model, you may struggle with how to map the agile / scrum roles to your teams, both on and offshore. Jeff Langr proposes a simplified view of the agile roles, such as : Customer […]

This article will reveal you the secret of Watir/Watin. Background As popular as Selenium, Watir/Watin is another open source tool which can be used to conduct automated testing on different browsers. To support multiple browsers, drivers of different browsers have been developed by Watir & Watin. And for firefox, JSSH is employed to fulfill the […]

Several members of our Hangzhou team attended the first official Scrum Alliance Gathering in China this past Monday and Tuesday. Two members of the team, myself and Abel Shen, a Sr. Engineer and fellow Multi Shoring blogger, were invited speakers to the event. Mary Jiang, another of our Multi Shoring bloggers and another colleague, Garriot […]

In the previous post, we talked about some major challenges we experienced in an integration project. In this post, I will share some suggestions on how to solve these problems. I also bring the discussion about using “Agile” or “Check Point Control” in integration project plan. Based on the previous post, it becomes natural that […]

    As I mentioned in the previous post, CFD (Cumulative Flow Diagram) is the chart we can use to monitor the ticket driven/maintenance project status, while CFD does not tell you exactly the status in a numeric way.  The metrics that are suggested to be used to measure the efficiency and the capacity are not that […]

In one of my Scrum projects there was an interesting conversation between my testing team and the development team: Tester A: “Look at that bug; it’s pretty straightforward that the functionality doesn’t match our test case. Why can’t somebody do a quick smoke test before checking in the code?” Developer A: “Well, yes I agree […]

Interesting article in CIO magazine a few months back about a Forrester report that found 35% of IT professionals describe their process as ‘Agile’ and 46% that say they are at least Agile in spirit. http://bit.ly/dDfRDt I think this meshes up well with what I’ve seen in the industry. In my job, I get to […]

A GDC project manager states his project status in the PMO meeting, “# of report design documents are in process, # of report design documents are completed, # of report design documents are not started… Regarding the quality, # of design documents passed review…” ‘Waterfall~ Waterfall~‘ other PMO members sing for him with the sarcasm […]

There are some interesting things happening over at SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory). A great name list of participants, with many of the luminaries of our industry participating. It will be interesting to see where this will lead. I’ve tried to participate with some previous attempts at similar things, such as some work by […]