I recently hosted a discussion at the London Agile Discussion Group (LADG) on the topic of BDD and feature files. It's always a popular topic and the session appeared to be at full capacity. I initially kicked off the session with a question to everyone: "What is Behaviour Driven Development?". I dished out some post-it [...]
Tag: Communication
How I interview Testers…
I've been conducting a lot of interviews recently and I thought I'd share my format for asking questions and stemming conversations that works well for me to be able to determine if the candidate is the right person for the job when it comes to skills, experience, mindset and remaining relevant in the industry. Here is the format [...]
“Start off with a turd and then polish it” – Really??!!?!
One of the most interesting discussions in the Agile community at the moment is about "MVP". I recently had a conversation with various community members and I heard someone say that MVP should be thought os as "starting off with a turd and then polish it"... It was another one of those times where I felt like I [...]
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer” – Peter F. Drucker
Today, I read an interesting quote today from one of Bob Marshall's blog posts that really got my brain cogs working... “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” [...]
Join my EuroSTAR webinar today at 2:00pm (BST) – “Influence: Why tea can be a great test tool”
I'm performing a webinar this afternoon at 2:00pm BST (sorry for the late notice).There is still time to sign up and join the webinar though.The webinar is titled: "Influence: Why tea can be a great test tool". I'll run through my theory surrounding this statement as well as discussing various influence techniques.You can register for [...]
MVP… What about adding value to that?
So I've been working on a project where the underlying tone of the team is to get the minimal viable product released on time. The idea being that we strip out waste and get the basics in there so that it can be released in a timely manner and then we use that to build [...]
Dan Ashby 