Author Archives: Liz

GROW, Systems Thinking and writing a novel

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Liz

GROW stands for Goal, Reality, Options, Way forward. As a coach, I frequently use GROW as a method of helping people move forward. Find the Goal, examine the Reality and all the resources available, look at Options for getting closer … Continue reading →

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If…

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Liz

If you can scan your threads when all around you Are searching for the last response they knew If you can kill the spammers with a button While others must select a different view If you can wait and not … Continue reading →

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Splitting up stories

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Liz

The high-level vision is made up of Stories of Unusual Size We have a good idea of where it is we want to go. We have some high-level stories which are quite large. We’re about to play some of them … Continue reading →

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Feature Injection and handling technical stories

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Liz

Technical stories don’t make sense As I learn more about stories and how they get written, I occasionally come across odd things that don’t make sense. One of these is the technical story. Here’s an example: As a developer, I … Continue reading →

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Tyburn 1.0 released

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Liz

It seems to be the season for releasing code! Tyburn is a fast, minimal, extensible Java Swing harness that was originally part of JBehave 1.0. You can download it here and use it like this: WindowControl control = new WindowControl(“my.named.frame”); … Continue reading →

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You may have noticed…

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Liz

… that my blog has moved. This is so that I can keep things like code samples, etc., connected to my blog, and so that it isn’t blocked by corporate filters that don’t like LiveJournal. I will still be crossposting … Continue reading →

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JBehave 2.0 is released!

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Liz

We discovered some time ago that JBehave 1.0 wasn’t being used. When we found out that it took over an hour to write the scenarios for the Game of Life, we realised why. Our goal with JBehave 2 was to … Continue reading →

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JBehave 2 is up on its usual svn

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Liz

svn co http://svn.codehaus.org/jbehave/trunk No ‘official releases’ yet, but if you want to play, go ahead. Examples of examples are checked into trunk. Features include: plain text scenarios steps defined using annotations that match the scenarios built on JUnit Ensure (which … Continue reading →

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RIP As a… I want… So that…

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Liz

If you’re more interested in the results than the conversation, skip to the summary. Recently, I’ve realised that a lot of BDD has been very dev-focused. There’s a reason for that. Dan’s a dev, I’m a dev and most of … Continue reading →

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Running your own Retrospective

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Liz

I’m running a training course for TDD and OO design at one of our clients. Normally when I teach this, it’s to Thoughtworkers or client staff working with Thoughtworkers. This time, I’m teaching fairly experienced clients who have some idea … Continue reading →

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