… by Slobodanka Sersik and Dr. Gerald Schröder

The context of this session is a container management system, which is rather big, speaking about 200 person years effort. The model that was used in order to create the test cases included scenarios, steps, adapters, components, and simulators. read more…

The keynote starts with our dear agile chicken & pigs story. Pigs are the ones who are fully commited to the projects, all other stakeholders are chickens. Judged from the agenda, this session will be much about required skills and motivation. That sounds promising

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This was really an excellent session and it was especially great as the things teached do not only apply to one’s professional life, but can really be useful beyond. Probably I still have to do some thinking on this, but here is what I was able to note down from the session.
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Are you now or have ever been … on a team that was pressed or overruled into releaseing flawed or unfinished work? I guess everybody has. After in introduction to Scrum he comes to the value of the “Definition of Done”. How it helps to have consensus and common understanding, manages expectations so that a release does not surprise the customer and have repeatable quality.

You should have a Definition of Done on different levels, for Tasks, Stories, Sprints and Releases. For example:

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So, this session is apparently about TPI, and the acronym was now already mentioned a few times, and maybe I should now it, but I don’t. So in contrast to yesterday, where I was expecting everybody to know what BDD is, now I am the one who does not know what most of the others (a quick show of hands confirmed that) do know. So let’s find out.

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The One Thing You Need to Know … About Software Development

Correctness can be confirmed at any time is the subtitle of Mary’s talk and it start off with the clear statement that Waterfall does simply not work. So let’s hear what works .

The question is how to deal with complexity and the answer to some extend is divide and conquer. Mary continues with some history on how to archieve this. Basically everything has been “structured” back in the 70s, which does also not really solve the problem as we know today. But what we really want is not to inject defects already from the very beginning. An early answer to this was given by Edsger Disjkstra which basically was a form of layered architecture.

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