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BSE Testing Scale: The Most Hyped Term in Agile Development Today
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Scrum is everywhere. More than 90 percent of agile teams use it. But for many organizations wanting to scale agile, one team using Scrum is not enough. Dave West says the Nexus Framework, created by Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, provides an exoskeleton for Scrum. Nexus allows...
Dave West
BSE Testing To Estimate or Not to Estimate, is that the Question?
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Wondering what NoEstimates means in practice, or why you would want to move toward NoEstimates? Perhaps you’ve heard the buzz or read Vasco Duarte’s book. Maybe you simply want to understand how you can spend less time estimating and more time delivering working software...
Matthew Phillip
BSE Testing Why Won’t They Pair?
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Do your developers and testers pair—and do it in the best ways? If you can answer yes, then you are among the fortunate ones who have a trusting environment where people have confidence in their work. Unfortunately, a large number of development shops don’t practice pairing in any form.
Linda Cook
BSE Testing Turn the Lights On: A Power Utility Company's Agile Transformation
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Why would a century-old utility with no direct competitors take on the challenge of transforming its entire IT application organization to an agile methodology? In an increasingly interconnected world, the expectations of customers continue to evolve. From smart meters to smart phones, IoT...
Glen Morris
Sustaining Agility—After the Consultants Leave
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Organizations transitioning to agile often hire external consultants to help them become more agile. However, what tends to happen six months after the consultants leave is that the organization is often left with more—and different—problems than they had before. Susan Lin says this...
Susan Lin
BSE Testing Balance Discovery and Delivery with Dual-Track Agile
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Do your product teams frequently struggle to have groomed and well-defined stories ready for the developers? Do you find yourselves frequently in “feed the beast” mode to keep your development teams busy? Do your product teams have problems gaining shared understanding across product...
Sean McKeever
BSE Testing Databases in a Continuous Integration/Delivery Process
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DevOps is transforming software development with many organizations adopting lean development practices, implementing continuous integration (CI), and performing regular continuous deployment (CD) to their production environments. However, the database is largely ignored and often seen as...
Steve Jones
BSE Testing Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication
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Ever sit in a strategy review session and get little or no participation from others? Or feel like you left a planning session with a different understanding of what was agreed to? If you feel there must be a more effective way to communicate important information around your strategy and...
Jennifer Bonine
BSE Testing Fail Smart, Not Just Fast: Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
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You’re a professional project manager or ScrumMaster. Your software development projects never fail because you follow all the best practices. Right? We all know better. Unfortunately, many projects fail, and they fail due to issues outside the team's control. The reality is that we need...
Rob Keefer
BSE Testing A Business-First Approach to DevOps Implementation
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DevOps is a cultural shift aimed at streamlining intergroup communication and improving operational efficiency for development and operations groups. Over time, inclusion of other IT groups under the DevOps umbrella has become the norm for many organizations. But even broadening the...
Leon Fayer

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