Category Archives: Agile

My DevOps Presentation from Keep Austin Agile 2016

By ChrisEdwards | Published: May 27, 2016

Here is the video from the DevOps presentation I gave this week at the Keep Austin Agile conference. DevOps – Applying Lean & Agile Principles to Operations & More from Chris Edwards on Vimeo. You can get the slides here. Abstract: By now you have likely heard about DevOps. It’s quickly gaining adoption. But what […]

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Effective Test Automation Presentation – Keep Austin Agile 2014

By ChrisEdwards | Published: March 25, 2014

This weekend I gave a presentation at the Keep Austin Agile conference called “Effective Test Automation”. Effective Test Automation from Chris Edwards on Vimeo. Keynote file Slides as PDF Abstract It’s easy to write tests, but it’s not so easy to maintain them over time. Tests should not be a drain on your productivity, they […]

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Acceptance Criteria vs. Acceptance Tests: Minimize your documentation

By ChrisEdwards | Published: December 2, 2012

To know that a story is done, we create a set of acceptance tests (story tests) that, when they pass, we know the story is complete and functions as expected. The process we follow for defining our acceptance tests is comprised of two steps. We first come up with high level acceptance criteria. Right before, […]

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Video: Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start (my presentation at Austin Code Camp 2011)

By ChrisEdwards | Published: September 15, 2011

Here is the video of my “Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start” presentation I gave last week at the Austin Code Camp 2011. It touches on all the principles, patterns, practices, and such that I have learned in my many years being a developer. I designed the Padawan2Jedi talk to present knowledge in a […]

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Questions To Ask In Retrospectives

By ChrisEdwards | Published: May 9, 2011

If you ask poor questions in your retrospectives, you will get equally poor results. To uncover the problem areas that you need to focus on, you need to ask the right questions. Here are a list of questions I have compiled over many years of retrospectives. Most of the questions here are very developer-centric, but […]

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