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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Agile testing and understanding change

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Tomorrow at the Agile 2009 conference, Abby Fichtner and Nate Oster are doing a workshop called Where Does Developer Testing End and Tester Testing Begin?. Jenny and I hope you can make it, because they’ll be doing a giveaway of autographed copies Beautiful Teams. Check out my O’Reilly Community posts for more information: Agile testing [...]

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The perils of a schedule, part II

Thursday, August 20, 2009

In the first part of this post, I started to answer a reader’s question about what information you need before you estimate a project and build a schedule. The reader, Wayne, said that he didn’t “get a solid sense of the relative timing of the activities (especially the requirements activity),” because it wasn’t clear how [...]

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The perils of a schedule

Friday, August 14, 2009

We got this e-mail a few days ago from one of our readers: Hello, I bought your book, “Applied Software Project Management.” It seems very good overall, but I can’t get past the fact that your book seems to imply that software requirements come after the project plan/WBS/scheduling. Am I missing something? On page 40, [...]

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