Author: Seb Rose

How valuable are you? That’s a question that many large organisations ask about their employees every year in the ritual of the performance review. If they asked the question honestly that might be alright, but many of them impose unjustifiable as…

TL;DR; If you thought you could cure all your manual testing woes by simply buying a tool and some consultancy, think again. [All entities in this piece, corporate or corporeal, are entirely fictional – any likenesses to reality are entirely coinc…

In his session at Lean Agile Scotland today, Matt Wynne drew a parallel between cargo cult adoption of agile and the Shu phase of Shu Ha Ri learning, and suggested that this might be OK as long as the adopters didn’t get stuck there. I’ve been mul…

I’ve been working with an old-school client who operates the classic dev team/test team model. The dev team has become test-infected over the past 5 years, writing all flavours of automated test, from unit through to full blown story tests, with J…

Not quite as far apart as you can get on the British mainland, but not far off! I’ll be speaking at: Agile on the Beach in Falmouth on 7 September 2012 Lean Agile Scotland in Edinburgh on 21/22 September 2012 If you’d like a 10% discount for the L…

It is with some trepidation that I write this. Brian Marick is one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and has been saying wise things about software development for almost as long as I’ve been writing software. I follow him on Twit…

I promised to publish my analysis of the survey that I conducted at the beginning of the year and, in a way, I have. The “Common Objections To TDD” slide deck that I posted on Slide Share contains a breakdown of the responses with some graphical r…

If you missed my talk at ACCU 2012, you now have another chance. I’ll be presenting it at Agile North (Preston) on June 29th. There is a chance that it will be recorded, which would be great, because the slide deck doesn’t really work on its own.