Monthly Archives: August 2011

Dear Agile Hardware Skeptic

This post is a little different than what I’ve been doing here so far because it’s directed at only 1 person. This person is new to agile. We have talked about it a few different times and last time we talked … Continue reading

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8 Ways To Avoid Ignorance Based Exploratory Testing

Exploratory testing is a term I heard several times at Agile2011 in Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago. As I heard people talking about it, exploratory testing seemed to be something that verification engineers should be familiar with. Admittedly, … Continue reading

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Guest Blog: What’s All This Hardware Scrum Sprint Demo Stuff, Anyhow?

By: Rolf V. Ostergaard If you read about Scrum from the software world, you learn how important it is to make the sprint demo as close as possible to the real product in a realistic user scenario. Some obsess over it … Continue reading

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Agile2011 Final Report

Agile2011 was a great conference. No question. Broad coverage of a bunch of great topics, high quality speakers and great organization made it probably the most enjoyable conference I’ve ever been too. Regardless of what you’re working on – hardware, … Continue reading

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Agile2011 Round-up: Day 4

The Neil Johnson Agile2011 Conference Gold Star Award For Outstanding Accidental Contribution To The Field Of Hardware Verification The Neil Johnson Agile2011 Conference Gold Star Award for Outstanding Accidental Contribution To The Field Of Hardware Verification is a mildly prestigious, … Continue reading

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Agile2011 Round-up: Day 3

Exploratory Testing In An Agile Context (9:00) This talk was given by Elisabeth Hendrickson. Elisabeth’s twitter handle is @testobsessed and I’d say that suites her entirely. She is obsessed with testing. That was pretty obvious. This was more a workshop than … Continue reading

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Agile2011 Round-up: Day 2

Day 2 General Observations One thing I missed pointing out yesterday was the cross section of people at this conference. Yesterday I talked to people from Nike, Schlumberger, Siemens, Esri, Department of Defense, John Deere, CGI and a few others … Continue reading

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Agile2011 Round-up: Day 1

  We’re off and running at Agile2011! I haven’t run into any other pure hardware guys so I’ll take it upon myself to do a daily round-up for the hardware folks that want to follow along. No promises… but I’ll try and … Continue reading

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Emacs, org-mode, Kanban, Pomodoro… Oh my…

This post is slightly off-topic of our usual AgileSoC theme; instead it is aimed at you Emacs folks who use org-mode and have been asking yourself “How can I combine Kanban and org-mode?”  Here’s how I did it.  It’s not rocket … Continue reading

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