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Friday, November 09, 2007 9:17 AM

Keep Process Simple

Year ago one of our Software Test Engineers was tasked with documenting our smoke* process. It should have been something simple like: Developer packages binaries for testing Developer places smoke request on web page Tester signs up for smoke on web
Posted by SteveRowe | 1 Comments
Monday, August 13, 2007 9:15 AM

Scrum Meetings for Test

A year and a half ago I talked about how I was running scrum meetings with my team. Since then, we've refined the process but have consistently held scrums on a regular basis. Note that I'm not running a full Scrum system with sprints and product backlogs
Posted by SteveRowe | 3 Comments
Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:00 AM

Hofstadter's Law

Good advice for all project managers. Hofstadter's Law : It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 2:11 PM

The Three Stonecutters

Lots of interesting quotes in Dreaming in Code. This one is the story of three stonecutters. Each is asked what he is doing. The first answers that he is, "making a living wage." The second says, "I am doing the best job of cutting stones in the entire
Posted by SteveRowe | 4 Comments
Sunday, July 01, 2007 8:49 AM

Avoid 3-Card Combinations

I used to play collectible card games. I attended Whitman College during Richard Garfield 's tenure there as a math professor so I got into Magic: The Gathering near its inception. For those of you who don't play these, the basic system goes something
Posted by SteveRowe | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:25 PM

Experimenting With Scrum Part 4

This is the last post in my "experimenting with scrum" series. After our bug smash time, we went into a period of more serious product development. Recall that we were not implementing all of scrum but rather just the scrum meetings portion. This works
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:20 PM

Experimenting With Scrum Part 3

Our first attempt at using scrum came during what we call a bug smash. That is a time when we focus solely on fixing bugs. No work is being done on new features. This seemed like a logical time to implement scrum meetings. I chose to meet once a day for
Posted by SteveRowe | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:13 AM

Experimenting With Scrum Part 2

It occurs to me that some of those reading this blog will not be familiar with Scrum. Before I go into any details about what did and didn't work about my experiments, I'll take some time to give a quick overview of the process. For more information,
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Friday, December 30, 2005 12:13 PM

Experimenting With Scrum

I recently tried using some parts of scrum with my team at Microsoft. We're a development team in test and tend to have a lot of small, independent projects rather than one larger integrated one. To make matters worse, we work with audio and video and
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