The Agile Project Leadership Network is working on a certificate program in Agile Leadership. This has been discussed a bit on the Agile Leadership Yahoo group. I just emailed a […]
Interesting Presentation
Elisabeth Hendrickson just put up a reminder of her 2002 talk “Why Are My Pants On Fire?” – It is a quick but interesting read – here. Please, go read […]
Decline and Fall – III
I like the way my colleague, Sean, summed it up yesterday. To paraphrase what he said: Asking “Ok, but how will the decline and fall help me test this web-based […]
Requirements Methodology
If you listen to James Bach enough, you will eventually hear the idea that every practitioner should be able to articulate his strategy and methodology – preferably quickly – and […]
Connecting Gibbons and Systems Thinking
I was rather hoping that someone would respond to yesterdays post with: Yes, Matt, that’s all well and good, but you still didn’t answer Harry’s Question – what does the […]
A few of my favorite things – IV
As a thought experiment, I would like to describe nation at a point in time. I’ll let you figure out the nation and time … -> The country was once, […]
Run Corporate IT like a software company
I’m still on vacation, but this struck my eye as worth sharing … … corporate IT has to find ways to deliver the most important business capabilities as quickly as […]
Off to vacate
I’ll be in vacation for the next few days, but in the mean time, Paul Carvalho has an interesting post comparing skilled (exploratory) testing to fencing. I thought it was […]
Interview?
Software Quality Engineering recently sent me a bunch of inteview questions for a StickToolLook e-newsletter. Writing a reply was hard, as I wanted to provide real information that was worth […]
Context Driven
I posted this to the Software-Testing Yahoo Group yesterday, and I thought Creative Chaos Readers might enjoy this. The background is a post saying that context-driven thinking was universal, and […]
Against Systems
As a military cadet, I had a few occasions to design systems – generally point systems. For example, the number of points required to graduate from a summer encampment, or […]
The Software Concept Maturity Model (SCMM)
Here’s a gift for the holidays; a software concept maturity model to lighten your mood. Level 1 – InitialAt this point, someone has an idea. It seems to work for […]
References, Holidays, and Enterprise Architecture!
First of all, Agile Shark Jumpin’ got a reference last week on InfoQ.com. Nifty! Second, I am taking a short sabbat from Creative Chaos over the next few days. There […]
Four Schools of Software Testing
Most readers of “Creative Chaos” probably know that allthough I do all things software, my predominant focus is software testing. In fact, a few weeks back Elisabeth Hendrickson labelled my […]
Two Roads in a wood – III (Tone)
Brian Marick once wrong something to the effect of “Methodology design is an extension of personality.” There is a large percentage of the population to who having things be stable, […]
Two Roads in a wood – II
“Deal or no deal?”“Is that your identity?”“Let’s play one verses one hundred!”“Is that your final answer?” These catch-phrases all come from simple, formulaic game shows. The shows are the same, […]
Considering Conferences
I used to go to conferences to get new ideas, and my emphasis was on the “big” ones like The SD Conferences or the Open Source Conference. Thanks to the […]
Agile Shark Jumpin’ – IV
I turns out that my Collegue, Jim Brosseau has been going through some of the same issues that I have. Jim and I don’t totally agree on every issue (who […]
Test or Hardware Architecture ? – I
In the 1960’s, we had the “Software Engineering Crisis”, which was essentially the problem that NATO could not develop software supply to meet demand. The solution, more-or-less, seemed to be […]
Two Roads in a wood …
(I’m still on haitus from the Agile Jumped the shark. More soon. While I work on it …) From a recent post I made to the agile-testing list … I […]