Coming soon: the new DeveloperTown Agile Huddle
I'm working on a new offering for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Project Managers in the Indianapolis area. The goal is to incorporate regular face-to-face meetings, online collaboration, and original content focused on leading agile development efforts. Check back soon for updates.
Recent Publications
- How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing, Auerbach Publications
- Strategies for scaling Agile beyond simple code-and-deploy environments, SearchSoftwareQuality.com
- Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation, Agile Journal
- Agile software development: Tips for writing testable user stories, SearchSoftwareQuality.com
- Managing application performance in an Agile environment, SearchSoftwareQuality.com
- How founders think about software testing, Software Test Professionals Conference
Current Projects
- Consulting: For the past few months I've been offering test management services to a financial services company in Chicago, IL. In addition to that, we recently finished some compatibility testing for a product company in Jeffersonville, IN. In the last few months, I've also been doing a fairly extensive amount of testing work focused on user validation and usability testing. I'm actively looking for new project work for 2012.
- Coaching: I'm currently doing agile coaching with three software companies, two in Indianapolis, IN and another company in Muncie, IN. Two teams are focused on Scrum for software development; with both teams focused on backlog development / product planning, test-driven development / continuious integration, and release planning. The third team has asked for help at the executive level, looking at product development and IT planning across the organization.
- Training: I currently have offerings for Fundamentals of Software Testing scheduled out for the rest of 2011 and into 2012. In addition to those public classes, we've done a couple of private in-house offerings of the course this year. I'd really like to offer the new session-based test management and scrum training courses soon - contact me if you're interested.