June 4-5, 2012 Washington, DC DETAILS/REGISTRATION For information on other dates blog.agilityfeat.com/atdd-kickstart/ AgilityFeat is proud to be partnering with Lithespeed on our ATDD Kickstart classes, and so we're pleased to...
Congratulations to Dave Haeffner for having his Agile 2012 submission "Selenium Users Anonymous" accepted! Dave will be leading a "counseling" session for Selenium users at Agile 2012 in Dallas. The conference is from August 13 - 17...
ATDD with Cucumber! May 14-15, 2012Richmond, VA Length: 2 days Cost: $1495 US / person Early bird registration $1395 3 or more people - $1295 each AgilityFeat is proud to be bringing our Acceptance Test Driven Development training to...
Bienvenidos a Costa Rica! We are very pleased to work with our clients in the United States and to be able to share a little bit of Costa Rica with you in the process. When your team comes to visit us in Costa Rica, please keep these...
Today we held the first of many future "AgilityCasts", where we record a short presentation by one of our team members on a topic related to agile software development, nearshore agile development in Costa Rica, or anything that suits our...
Last week we just finished up the kick off for a new project in the AgilityFeat Costa Rica offices. This is a fast growing area of business at AgilityFeat and one I am very pleased about, so I would like to take a little time to describe...
I've always had a love/hate relationship with estimation. I find the topic fascinating. Estimation is like a car wreck, it's hard not to slow down some and take a look, even if you know it's wrong and you are afraid of what you might...
Dave Haeffner and I are proud to announce a new workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development using Cucumber and Ruby that we are offering in 2012. The workshop will initially be taught as private courses to companies, so if you are...
I'm excited to be part of a great upcoming agile event in the Charlottesville area! VGT (Video Gaming Technologies) in Ruckersville is hosting an evening of agile in a few weeks in coordination with AgileCville and Impact Makers. There...
It’s been over a year now since I started AgilityFeat, and what a great year it’s been. Being December, this is also a good time to get reflective as the year draws to a close. With that in mind, I’ve come up with a list of twelve...
Would competition in a game help create engagement and conversation, or stifle the conversation in favor of “one-ups man ship”? That was one of the questions that came up when I led a session of Agile Failure Pattern Poker last month at...
If you’re looking for a fun way to kick off discussions of difficult topics, then failure bows may work for you. In September I was at the Agile Coach Camp US (#ACCUS) in Columbus Ohio. Friday was “Games Day”, devoted to fun ways to...
I tend to write blog posts that are too long. Which is why sometimes I don’t blog as often as I should. But I really want to share everything with you that I learned at Agile Coach Camp US (#ACCUS) in Columbus Ohio last week. So instead...
Developing software for the cloud can make test-driven development more complicated, but not impossible. In this article that I wrote for TechWell.com and StickyMinds.com, I offer advice for continuing good development practices in the...
This article was published in Sogeti's QANews on September 30, 2011. See their article here Acceptance tests are a great way to improve collaboration between testers, developers, and customers. When all three parties agree ahead of time...
What is the ideal contract model to use with sub-contractors, and is it any different than you would use with a lead contractor? I'm curious myself, and so I'll just post a couple of quick thoughts and I encourage you to share your...
Are you looking for an inexpensive way to learn agile methods? Improve your agile engineering practices? Or learn about how agile methods are being employed in government? AgileDC is the place for you! I'm very pleased to be speaking...
Why are some developers so afraid of commitment? I'm not talking about relationships, but something equally as important. Committing your code to a repository before it goes stale or you lose the changes. I've witnessed a couple of...
This dilbert strip says it all...
How do Lean principles complement and reinforce the roles in a Scrum project? That was one question on my mind as I drove up to the Agile Leadership Network DC meeting, held in Tysons Corner. People sometimes discuss Scrum, XP, Kanban,...
What's the deal with story points and agile estimation techniques, and why can't we just improve our estimates over time? That's part of the question that a friend of mine asked recently, and I'm going to respond to it in this blog post....
The Innovate Virginia conference will be held in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday September 16th, and I am proud to be one of the speakers there. It will be an excellent one-day conference bringing together many excellent speakers in a cost...
This past Tuesday at AgileCville we had a series of lightning talks on "Agile for Newbies." The meeting went very well, and I'll provide a brief recap of it here. Thanks go to RallySoftware, who sponsored the meeting this month and...
Have you ever been asked for a rough estimate, and then later regretted giving a "rough" estimate because the customer tried to hold you to it? A familiar story This week I spoke with an agile coaching colleague of mine, and he relayed a...
What's this agile stuff all about? Come to the next AgileCville meeting and find out! Our next Agile Cville meeting will be on Tuesday June 28th, from 6-8pm at OpenSpace in Charlottesville. Please note that the date has changed from our...