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It’s time to revisit the topic of Big Visible Charts. Display important project information not in some formal way, not on the web, not in PowerPoint, but in charts on the wall that no one can miss. [Updated: Velocity Charts]
Nearly every metric can be perverted, since up- and down-ticks in the metric can come from good or bad causes. Teams driven by metrics often game the metrics rather than deliver useful software. Ask the team to deliver and measure Running Tested Features, week in and week out, over the course of the entire project. Keeping this single metric looking good demands that a team become both agile and productive.
Some of the XP practices may be things we want to do all the time. Some we may wish to do only part of the time. When we are really skilled in use of a technique, we’re best equipped to decide when to use it. Here are some exercises that may help build skill. And make up your own exercises. Let us know about how they work. Added: Planning Etudes.
The XP Circle of Life helps keep projects alive. A key aspect of this cycle is the Acceptance Test. Acceptance Tests are critical to communication among team members, especially between customer and programmer.
Non-Testing Software of Interest
AgileTrack – Development planning and iteration tracking tool. Assists in the life-cycle of iterations, projects, stories, tasks, and bugs. Simple, usable, flexible, and practical. NEW 2005/12/13
Avignon an acceptance testing system using an extensible XML based testing language. Now supports integration of handlers written in .NET languages to test .NET GUI applications.
For information on use of the testing framework, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestingFramework.For questions, post on the extremeprogramming discussion group on egroups. Sign up at XP Home.
accessUnit is a Testframework for Microsoft Access
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Additional Smalltalk, superseded by version above. Some include GUIS.
There’s a lot of interesting talk and thinking, going on under the heading of #NoEstimates. I think it’s great, and I’m all for it. To do #NoEstimates, people will need some help …
It’s time to work a bit on the “model” for the game. I envision an array of “stories”, each able to answer how long it will take to do it, and how valuable it is. The answers to these questions …
