
The Value of Passion
My last engagement has left me a little scarred and bruised. It has really tested my core agile values and as I reflect on it, I came to a surprising conclusion. The engagement involved introducing/advocating cloud/virtualisation to improve the testing capabilities within a global tier 1 bank. The bank has all the elements in place […]

Top Tips – Advanced Acceptance Test Driven Development
Over the course of my career I’ve had the pleasure of working with some great agile teams. I’ve also had some bitter disappointments working with great developers, testers and BAs who just don’t get it… Many of the teams that get it didn’t actually use natural language to create executable acceptance tests, however they did […]

Enterprise Agile – Evolutionary Standards
At the risk of being lambasted by the agile community I will use the words enterprise and agile in the same sentence 😉 This article largely follows on from some previous entries and in particular my entry on user centred test driven development. It is often a complaint that large organisations trundle along painfully and […]