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Save Our Scrum

October 30, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Presentations, Process, Skill Building, Video / No Comments

Ken Schwaber, a co-creator of scrum, says that roughly 25% of teams trying the method realize the gains they had hope. More teams call themselves “Scrumbut”, “Scrumerfall”, or “Scrumish” than […]

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The Software Testing World Cup

February 6, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos, Skill Building, Testing / 2 Comments

Imagine a world test competition, held over the internet, on your continent, in a time zone that is reasonable for you, on a Saturday, with local judges you know and […]

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Technical Debt – Workshop

February 27, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Skill Building / 1 Comment

I am pleased to announce the first Workshop On Technical Debt (WOTD) will be held August 14/15 on the Campus of Calvin College in West Michigan. The event is organized […]

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Where have all the sapient processes gone?

August 2, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Process, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

Most agile test automation is, well, clerical. To borrow an analogy from James Bach, it views testing as something like an inventory clerk at a Grocery Store. “It says here […]

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Software Testing Skills – II

May 14, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Skill Building / No Comments

My last post was the quick, fast, off-the-cuff sort of answer I give to a mailing list on my lunch hour. Paul Carvalho has actually taken time to do a […]

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Recent post on the agile testing list

May 11, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Skill Building / No Comments

I just posted this on the Agile-Testing list; it is rough, uncouth, and just a start, but it was fun to write and I wanted to share. If I could […]

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Post to the XP Discussion List

March 8, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Skill Building / No Comments

I just posted this to the ExtremeProgramming List; I thought it was worth sharing … >Fortunately I think this is changing rapidly, and there is a growing>body of experience on […]

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Rethinking Process Improvement – IV

February 9, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Process, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

Yesterday I suggested that a lot of process improvement is trying to eliminate the overlap between roles. For example, when people talk about making job descriptions “better”, that is often […]

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Rethinking Process Improvement – III

February 8, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Process, Skill Building, Strategy / No Comments

If software development is an assembly line, then unclear roles is a real problem (see illustration.) You don’t know who is supposed to tightnen the nut. It might be tightend […]

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Rethinking Process Improvement – II

February 7, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Process, Skill Building, Strategy / 2 Comments

This is image 2 from Winston Royce’s Paper – “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems“ Let’s look at each stage for the process – requirements, design, coding, testing … […]

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Rethinking Process Improvement – I

February 5, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Process, Skill Building, Strategy / No Comments

Most of our ideas about process improvement come from a factory analogy – which was Invented by Frederick W. Taylor at the beginning of the 20th century. His idea was […]

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HP Culture, Circa 1976

January 31, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Skill Building, Strategy / No Comments

Wozniak:”No, I’m never going to leave Hewlett-Packard. It’s my job for life. It’s the best company because it’s so good to engineers.” It really treated us like we were a […]

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Certifiable – III

January 15, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

I am drafting a reply to the agile-leadership group, but posting it here first. Several people (including me), asked what problem certification solves, or who the “customer” is for the […]

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Measuring Project Health

January 10, 2007 / Matt Heusser / People, Skill Building / No Comments

I’ve been known to say that explaining a single idea so well that it can’t be misunderstood takes me about 1,000 words. Well, yesterday, on the context-driven testing yahoo group, […]

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Craft Appreciation

January 9, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Skill Building / No Comments

An article on Art Appreciation that is really about Craft Appreciation and skill building – from From Paul Graham: What counts as a trick? Roughly, it’s something done with contempt […]

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Certifiable – II

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 3 Comments

Another post, this one to the agile-management list … Ron Jeffries Wrote:A leadership certification, one would imagine, would perforce be far less specific and far more general, but just as […]

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Certifiable?

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

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 […]

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