Expertise

Visioning/Requirements

Capturing the shared vision

• bringing experience with and awareness of a broad range of markets, products and services as well as a fascination for listening to people express their expertise

Filling in the blanks

• exploring logical semantic implications to uncover missing or contradictory requirements

Release Planning

Eyeing the thin slice

• collaborating with engineering and marketing to find the core feature to build that tests both market and technology ASAP.

Buildable Stories

Crafting stories

• eliminating the crud and getting to the essence of the story that needs to be built

Visualizing verbiage

• creating clarifying diagrams that reveal hidden relationships and dependencies and leap language barriers

Asking tough questions

• revealing assumptions with focused and intuitive questioning

Making discovery fun

• using games and a playful ‘try this’ approach to draw out requirements and test assumptions

Exercising data early

• translating abstract logical statements into tabular tests of expected and actual data

Pinning it down

• taking things from the general to the specific and measurable with thoughtful, pointed questions.

Development, Testing and Deployment

Risky Business Testing

• determining what needs testing first and most
• establishing Business Acceptance Tests so the right software gets built

On Demand Testing

• As soon as the developer indicates his tests have passed, testing begins in earnest