Category Archives: complexity

BDD Before The Tools

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Liz

Another client approached me today about BDD and using tools like Cucumber to automate scenarios. There are a few things I’d love to teams see develop as a focus before heading down the tools path. You may already be doing … Continue reading →

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Capability-based Planning and Lightweight Analysis

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Liz

As a follow-up to my post on estimating complexity, I wanted to share one of the interesting things I’ve been doing with the ideas and the numbers. This is quite long, but it’s turned out to be faintly revolutionary, and … Continue reading →

Posted in bdd, capability red, complexity, cynefin | 10 Comments

Estimating Complexity

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Liz

Over the last few years, teaching people the Cynefin framework early on in engagements has really helped me have useful conversations with my clients about when different processes are appropriate. There’s one phrase I use a lot, which is self-evident … Continue reading →

Posted in capability red, complexity, cynefin, evil hat, real options | 27 Comments

BDD and Complexity Thinking tutorials at NDC Oslo

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Liz

This year I’ll be running two 1-day workshops at NDC Oslo: Behaviour-Driven Development Have you ever wanted to know exactly what your customers want? Or helped them to clarify their requirements? Have you ever wanted to quickly pick up a … Continue reading →

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Respect for People: it’s a Test, not a Pillar

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Liz

On Monday at LKNA13, I ran an ignite talk on the title above. It was prompted by a video clip of John Seddon talking to Jeffrey Liker, suggesting that running interventions to make people more respectful might not be a … Continue reading →

Posted in complexity, feedback, real options | 3 Comments

The Deliberate Discovery Workshop

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Liz

This is a pretty simple workshop which I ran at Agile 2011 and have run as part of my BDD tutorial since. It usually gets people thinking differently, so I thought I’d share it with you too. Some teams have … Continue reading →

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Cynefin for Devs

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Liz

Every now and then, someone comes up with a new way of looking at the world that becomes the next fashionable thing to do. Every time I’ve seen this, there’s usually a space of time in which a lot of … Continue reading →

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