Tag: slop
Friday, 24 February 2012
Stop pushing features and start delighting users
Posted by Simon Baker
Focus on outcomes not output. Stop pushing features and start delighting users.
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
There's more to done than the green dot
Posted by Simon Baker
So you're working on a user story with your pair, developing vertical slices and getting feedback from the tester and customer as you progress. You're ticking off the acceptance criteria as they're satisfied by the emerging functionality. Awesome! Everything is tickety-boo. Then the customer realizes that something is missing and asks for that something to be incorporated into the card. What do you do?
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Saturday, 17 December 2005
Slop and slack
Posted by Simon Baker
Michael Feathers identified iteration slop as the time spent before an iteration, preparing for it, and the time spent after an iteration, finalizing the work.
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