AGILE IN ACTION

Friday, 27 November 2009

New blog url

Posted by Simon Baker
If you follow this blog we'd prefer you to use the new address - http://blog.energizedwork.com. However, we'll continue to support http://www.agileinaction.com (and http://www.think-box.co.uk/blog) until further notice.

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Pirate Rob on Grails Selenium RC

Posted by Simon Baker
Pirate Rob talks about testing Grails applications with the Selenium RC plugin at London Groovy & Grails User Group.
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Backstage at Boffoonery

Posted by Simon Baker
Finally Boffoonery happened last night and it was absolutely spiffing fun. I'm so glad we sponsored it. It was a triumph and a wonderful tribute to Bletchley Park and to those who worked there. Congratulations to the cast, especially Johnny Ball for his performance during the quiz and for reminding me of the fun I had as a child watching his TV shows. Jason, you can be proud of what you've done here and you thoroughly deserve that big cigar!
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Monday, 2 November 2009

How we use stories

Posted by Simon Baker
All our work items, both user-focused and technical, are stories framed in the context of a user interacting with the product. Each story represents a distinct, visible and testable piece of work that can be delivered independently to realize some value. Stories exist at many levels of specificity and never convey solutions. For example, at a point in time it's sufficient to use an ambiguous story to describe an interaction as simply an activity a user engages in using the product. At some time later, typically when detail starts to matter, smaller stories are written to describe that activity in terms of more specific tasks the user performs with the product.
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