Lean Software Development Workshop with Mary & Tom Poppendieck

I was cleaning up some old files, and came across my notes from a workshop I attended with Mary and Tom Poppendieck entitled Lean Software Development – Leaders Workshop at the YOW! 2010 Australia Developer Conference in Brisbane. Obviously the slides and commentary have a wealth of information, but here are some of the key takeaways I had.

• stop doing stuff that does not deliver value, not laying people off
• spend time doing the right stuff, not the wrong stuff
• think systems, not software – Southwest think employees, customers and then shareholders
• optimise the whole system (software is just a layer) – Amazon is structured around it services (2 pizza teams of 8-10 people)
• a separate testing team is silly – just handoff / afterthought, need to build quality into your product
• need to understand value before you deliver value – understand what your customers value, not what they want and build the right thing before building the thing right
• setting up a new product is a set of learning loops
• watch for what is making people uncomfortable
• understand your customers not by bringing an idea but by taking the team to understand the problem
• there is always demand in a service company – fix issues as fast as possible, but that is not the game
• consumability – how much effort does the customer need to go through to get value?
• customers decide value… and therefore decide waste
• measure productivity on value delivered, not features
• work in progress is waste – customers are not interested in your long list of things to do
• good Agile teams have a low number of defects
• map end-to-end flow to find the biggest opportunity in your end-to-end process
• 40-90% of the cost is maintenance not delivery, the cost of quality is way higher than the cost of building quality in, don’t put defects on a list (track them, fix them immediately), root cause every escaped defect, determine why every one happened
• problem with readable specifications is that the text is not refactorable – any text page will have hundreds of ambiguities
• every organisation that calls itself professional should be doing TDD
• legacy code is code without unit tests, use Martin Fowler’s strangler pattern or the Mikado method to refactor
• expertise takes 10 years / 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, need a teacher to challenge, feedback and dedication (The Road to Excellence)
• marketing leader – for a successful product you should be able to name this person
• technical leader – keep two top engineers free to roam around and give guidance
• Empire State Building – on time and under budget, had to manage the flow of materials not tasks, had two alternating mills to keep up schedule and remove failure point
• people who have dome something before should know how to deliver within the constraints
• when managing an organisation you need to manage the capacity, you need to have a stable flow
• kanban – reduce work in progress to expose problems (don’t crash your boat on the first day, keep your limits high then lower your limits and remove your problems one at a time
• kanban board – every column is handover to the next column, the next column (downstream process) gets to define done
• 5 why’s – the cause of the cause of the cause of the cause…, The Team Handbook has good process improvement practices, as do the Six Sigma tools
• delivering value – read Competitive Engineering by Tom Glib and Value Driven Development
• product-centric development – 54% of Fortune 500 companies are heading in this direction

Finally, a huge thank you to Nick Muldoon from Atlassian who helped me out with a space on this course. Also to one of my colleagues who reminded me that we should ask forgiveness not permission when I was dealing with some competing priorities!

Agile Australia 2012 Product Afternoon Review

As a precursor to the Agile Australia 2012 conference to be held in Melbourne, a product afternoon was held at the Hilton on the Park in Melbourne in November and had a good variety of Australian speakers. The success of the event means a similar event is being schedule for Sydney in February 2012. Here are my notes from the event:

Look What Happened When We Let Customers into the Product Development Loop at Lonely Planet!

Nigel Dalton from Luna Tractor led this session, his slides are available here.

From Miscellaneous

•  you can’t say product you need to start saying customer
• publishing life cycles are enormous – publishers have to wait up to 5 years to change a font
• The New New Product Development Game – the last paragraph sums it up
• need to avoid the next bench design problem – only ask the person on the next bench about quality, do not go to the wider world
• for Lonely Planet, realisation was a competitor in the market who produced a colour guide, no sales the month they launched
• went to customers 4 times in the process, took publishing from 2 years to 9 months, visualise the project
• Rob Adams talks about getting the developers to do some of the initial marketing calls

Marketing is from Venus, IT is from Mars – and the Customer Doesn’t Care

Daniel Oertli from REA Group led this discussion that he hastily renamed to “5 Kick Ass Principles for Customer-led Development”, his slides are available here.

From Miscellaneous

• be customer focussed not customer driven
• effect of marketing has changed over the last 5-10 years, we no longer control the marketing channel, need customer admiration
• be a peeping Tom. Regularly – there is only one customer, the people who pay for products, none of this internal customer bull####, hard to put your business on the road regularly to talk to customers
• 5 on Friday – Silverback on Mac, 5 internal employees for 15 minutes and ask them to do specific tasks with your product (eg. show me how to change the default colour scheme), continue to do this every Friday as parts of the product are developed
• don’t ask for the solution – to get creative you need to figure it out internally, great people create great things
• day and half every quarter – hack day – off tools, schedule around it, put ideas on intranet and vote, teams form around the idea self-forming, winning team gets a cash prize and gets sponsored product into production
• 2 week inception process – use business canvas mapping to lay out the business drivers
• democratize design – hard to get excited about something if you have not been part of the design, get everybody to draw
• ready, fire, aim – Agile gives us opportunity to change things in motion but most organisations still execute iteratively what is planned up front, Agile gives you a bullet frequently, be very clear about your minimal marketable features, be ruthless about what you send to your Agile teams, you have a lot of go’s at this
• teams win – good people outperform any processes, keep teams very small (6-8 people), have a mix of business fundamental understanding, lead designer and lead technologist and there for skills not core decision making, trust is essential
• dealing with resistance – hardest change of all was getting business on the journey, need to get culture sorted and get teams focussed
• more of what people do is outside of their hierarchy, biggest impact is dynamic thinking by thinking of type of things we will do rather than what we will do
• public companies need a plan to show to shareholders, challenge is to make it more dynamic after that
• engage people in their career progression – still report to a lead, but 90% of the time they live with their cross functional team – more about stretching their knowledge in their domain so have practice meetings

SEEK’s Approach to Product Innovation

Doug Blue from SEEK presented this session, his slides are available here.

From Miscellaneous

• put customers before profits – no display advertising on the front pages, founder would prefer to have a dollar tomorrow rather than a dollar today
• build for the long term – customer core needs, competitive advantage, long term trends and shareholder value, in GFC let customers negotiate out of long term contracts
• strive for a rock solid core and out innovate the competition – focussed on number of ads and size of audience, now need to focus on the product
• focus – do a few things very well, carried this over to the iPhone app as well, but run business on the things that are do-able
• people engagement – never compromise on engagement
• data driven decisions – if we build or change something, we measure it
• test and learn – put it out in market and do course correction
• balancing customer needs – 3 different customers with different needs (job seeker, employer, recruiters) – came up with an invisible salary to balance the needs
• on bigger initiatives, need to do your homework

A Start-up Approach to Product Delivery in a Corporate Environment

John Sullivan from Jetstar delivered this session, his slides are available here.

From Miscellaneous

• XP Explained lacked an explanation on how to communicate effectively with customers to understand what they wanted to achieve
• base costs on optimum team sizes that can manage constant delivery of a number of system concerns
• have no process, when problems occur, take those problems away
• don’t use iterations, they constrain the customer, need to be able pick up any card and get it into Production
• ideas wall – backlog for where the business is going, anyone can post ideas on it
• don’t talk about what the product we are delivering should do, talk about what the business should do
• challenge everything – stand ups are almost useless in large organisations – only say things what people in the circle need to know about, because they work together, so they should know
• most people in large organisations are disempowered – how do I know I am doing the right thing? Just do it, everyone is the business
• need to help everyone understand the market – understand what the impact of features are
• whole of company showcases every Friday
• need multi disciplined teams that understand the market they are striving for

Panel: Why is Customer-led Product Development so Hard?

Keith Dodds from ThoughtWorks led this panel with all of the above speakers. Some of the key learnings were:

From Miscellaneous

• it’s hard to ask hard questions
• if you have leaders that are customer focussed, everything else will follow
• most organisations try to make the workforce effective and efficient by putting structures around them, need to retain a functionalised structure and stay away from specialisation
• companies are introverted because traditionally they have not had access to customers
• it’s hard to keep up with all of the tools out there – there is lots technology to seek out what the customers are viewing
• most products are designed to be obsolete within 1-2 years, especially those that are consumer focussed
• companies are not set up to evolve things, they are setup to build, the world has changed where everything is outdated the minute you deploy
• grass roots movements are usually the most enduring
• most companies lack the balls to shut things down when they need to
• frugal innovation – constraints help you channel great ideas, would be interesting to apply some artificial constraints to hack days
• what doesn’t work are artificial constraints and the team know it
• next C level job will be the chief designer – targeting the customer
• Agile helps to get a customer led product out, because the person who wants the product can talk to the person who builds the product
• report on value delivered to the business rather than velocity
• the pool of talent is not that big, how do you keep people motivated - sense of purpose, sense of meaning (problems that have currency in the real world), ability to react and shape, ability to be heard, about making a difference
• where do great Product Managers come from, how do we develop and train these people

YOW! 2011 Australia Review

The YOW! 2011 Australian Developer Conference was held a couple of weeks ago in both Brisbane and Melbourne and I was able to attend with thanks to Dave Thomas and the organisers of the conference on my press credentials for InfoQ. I had the ability to record some podcasts for The Agile Revolution and Coding By Numbers as well as chat with most of the Agile related speakers. Here are some of my notes from the sessions I got the opportunity to sit in.

Dave Thomas kicked off proceedings with some Lady Java:

Keynote: Top 10 JVM Erroneous Zones

Cameron Purdy from Oracle presented this session. Whilst it is good to see management levels talking about and understanding the core business, I found this keynote rather average. The presentation is available here.

From YOW 2011

• immutability – no concept in Java, introducing would be good for thread safety but would also improve garbage collection (stop the stop -the-world clauses)
• primitive types – binding between interface and implementation, improving would simplify and fix auto-boxing and generics, would need to make sure code compiles the same way
• interface vs implementation – they are all the same thing, a problem that we all inherit from the same parent
• properties – very fixed contract currently, need to loosen this up
• obvious intrinsic types – Decimal needs to follow IEEE standard 754-2008 (754r), need to upgrade to a 128- bit world
• real runtime model – JVM must provide predictability, need more access at code level
• constants – no constants for intrinsics or other similar types
• alternate class file format – limited to 64KB in methods, hierarchies make no sense like inner and anonymous classes
• tail recursion / tail call optimization – performance benefits like Scala

Continuous Design

Getting the opportunity to see Mary Poppendieck speak is always a pleasure, for this conference she delivered her talk on Continuous Design. As the program host for the Lean and Agile track, I also had the pleasure of introducing Mary. Her presentation is available here.

From YOW 2011

• continuous delivery misses design and feedback – how do we know what to develop if we are thinking about continuous delivery, has created a need
• continuous delivery uptake is increasing, takes about a year to get going
• need to assemble a diverse team – frame, ideaton, experimentation then iterate
• 3M – make a little, sell a little, learn a little (repeat) – the fastest through this loop is the winner – fastest can be four times faster
• need good people (pay attention to hiring) and a whole team (need all the functions which can break the agile 7 +/- 2 model), measure success in customer satisfaction
• start with customers – Amazon (working backwards – write a press release, write FAQ, describe customer experience, write user manual)
• disruptive design – companies like GE are starting to design products for different markets like China and India rather than USA and Europe – resulted in different design , thinking, price point
• need to decide when it is time for people to see it – it’s hard to refactor books, hardware and first impressions but you need to take a chance and find out that you are wrong – a balance trade-off
• minimum viable product – biggest waste is building the wrong thing followed by complexity – build it and measure the response (learn)
• implement a show me more button and forward to to an under construction page and measure the clicks
• Eric Ries – The Lean Startup 
• avoid vanity metrics, need actionable metrics, use innovation accounting – start with a hypothesis, build MVP, target initiatives at improving a growth metric in your hypothesis, measure done as adding value
• use A/B tests to change your conversion rate
• test early – don’t waste your time arguing
• cohort metrics – operate on data, as people run into my product how do they behave
• feature toggles – switch features on/off on demand, wrap entrance to feature with toggle code, control via configuration file – customers love it
• canary releasing – take a small amount of users and give them a new version, need to be able to tell a good change from a bad change very fast – monitor key thresholds and roll back fast if required – make sure when something goes wrong it never goes wrong again
• Apple – ” it’s not about money” – understand customer problem and the revenue will turn up
• Google – “it’s best to do one thing really, really well” – stay focussed
• Amazon – “think long term” – you don’t want make a lot of money off your best customers, some things don’t always make financial sense
• 3M – “hire good people and leave them get on with it”

I also had a great half hour chat with Mary on the second day of the conference where we talked in-depth about continuous design as well as size of the product team. She believes the key is to enable the complete development cycle and discover good engineering products. We should stop using software words, including Agile, and start using system level engineering. As for the team size debate, we should use system engineering and break our teams into appropriate sub-components.

60 Years of Innovative and Agile Work Practices

Nigel Dalton led this entertaining and informative trip down memory lane, and as the program host for the Lean and Agile track I also had the pleasure of introducing him. The presentation is available here.

• people who pay your wages don’t know your stuff, this is a heavy duty approach that has been used for the last 100 years
• 1930′s Cabinet War Room – as close to an agile room design as you can get, war is a fairly big project!, agile does scale (WWII), lucky it did or this presentation would have been in German!, military and politicians were in the same room, no battle plan survives contact with the enemy
• 1940′s Lockheed Martin – trademarked skunk works – built a team and in 143 days built the XP-80, built skunk works rules

• 1950′s U2 and SR71 – if you do good engineering, you will be amazed how long it lasts
• 1960′s moon race – iteratively learning through doing, working rockets are the primary measure of focus

• 1970′s Luna Tractor – Russians were striving for a different question, what is on the moon?, different question and cost a lot less money, Apollo 13 is the greatest example of an agile project, ask the right question…
• 1980′s cold war fears – madness of strategic parity, Russians learnt a space shuttle program cost a lot of money after duplicating it, took the USA 30 years to learn it

I also had the opportunity to talk more in-depth with Nigel Dalton after his presentation for The Agile Revolution podcast with Renee Troughton.

Product Engineering

Mike Lee presented this session, in a sombrero, and his slides are available here.

From YOW 2011

• underwear gnome algorithm, product engineering is step 2
• product engineering is overarching, top down and empathetic
• think about what you are going to do before you do it…
• million dollar idea – ideas don’t matter and are usually terrible, originality does not matter, it is quality
• ideas – it’s like a blank but with blank…
• consider your customers – start at the end by making a commercial (30 – 90 seconds on the problem you are going to solve and how you are going to solve it)
• your best product tester is your arch nemesis
• in user interface – it is much more important to be consistent than correct
• real artists ship – plan, design, ship on time!
• don’t ship the rough draft
• fear social debt much or more than technical debt – you can fix technical debt (you can but you won’t!)
• shipping a product is like giving birth to a kid – there is a heck of a lot more work to come
• endeavor to kill your own, you are never done, when people are raving about the first one, you are already finishing the second, you want an army of evangelists
• Appsterdam – the most important thing we have is the community
• the hook is the difference to a defining product, but need to keep being innovative

Better Testing With Less Work: QuickCheck Testing in Practice

John Hughes delivered this interesting session around Quick Test. The slides are available here.

From YOW 2011

Keynote: Escape From the Ivory Tower: The Haskell Journey From 1990 to 2011

The keynote kicked off with a tribute to some of our founders who we lost in the last year, including Dennis Ritchie:

Simon Peyton-Jones, the inventor of Haskell, delivered this entertaining keynote, his slides are available here.

From YOW 2011

Keynote: Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces…Made Easy!

With an award for the best title for a keynote ever, Damian Conway kicked off day 2 with this entertaining session.

From YOW 2011

•  change your velocity, rotate your space-time deep
• rod logic

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making in Software Development

Linda Rising pronounced this as the “weird talk”, her slides are available here.

From YOW 2011

• meetings – no thinking
• no scientific experiments that show agile is any better
• we need sleep – but average time is dropping, naps are good too…
• we are hardwired to look at the horizon, so lift your eyes and look around and blink
• lying down improves your cognitive performance
• research from University of Queensland – the longer you sit the sooner you will die
• the startling ideas come at a time when you are doing nothing
• eat before you’re hungry, drink before you’re thirsty – when the brain is lacking energy, the default is to say no
• we are hardwired to be close to nature – we do better with natural light and real plants around us, take 5 minutes outside in a natural environment
• explain the problem to your dog or a stuffed toy
• in meetings, when at an impasse, get each person to explain each others version of the problem
• fearless change experiments – test the waters, reflect, small success, step by step

I also had the opportunity to sit in on a very interesting interview with Linda Rising on the Coding By Numbers podcast with Craig Aspinall and Steve Dalton. I will post a link to the podcast when it is released.

Domain-Driven Design for RESTful Systems

Jim Webber delivered this entertaining session, perhaps the most entertaining part was when he tried to explain a cassette tape to a young audience member (I remember loading Commodore 64 games off tape…). His slides are available here.

From YOW 2011

• embrace HTTP as an application protocol
• hypermedia helps us to explain to humans what to do next, can also use for computer to computer

Feedback Makes Everything Better: Understanding the Software Engineering Process

Bjorn Freeman-Benson presented this session, his slides are available here.

From YOW 2011

• problem with Agile is we release and it vanishes with customers - The Progress Principle, The Lean Startup and Continuous Delivery are good books that solve this problem
• continuous deployment – eliminate the fear around doing deployment
• tests – a version of feedback, need confidence
• automated deployment strategy – need to be repeatable using tools, need to be able to do quickly
• need architecture that can handle inconsistencies in the system at any one time – different versions of API’s, etc. in the system at the one time
• feature toggles – need on the technical and business side, toggles for beta users, power users, need to be able to work on one code stream all the time for it to work
• traffic – need traffic for this to be successful, especially to get useful metrics
• monitoring and feedback – what characteristics are being used, monitoring and qa are the same thing (see Steven Yegge’s rant on big SOA)
• Apollo program was basically Agile and continuous deployment in the 1960′s – 61 launches until they landed on the moon – only way they made progress was because they were monitoring everything
• record all the values all the time
• pay attention to long term metrics, not just instantaneous
• should use the word anomoly more (not bug) – use feedback to understand and fix our anomalies

Other Stuff

Joshua Kerievsky gave two talks at the conference that I unfortunately did not get to see live (Lean Startup and The Limited Red Society), but I did get the opportunity to speak to him in-depth with Renee Troughton for the Agile Revolution podcast.

Renee and I also did a wrap-up podcast (the podcast has not been released at the time of this post).

I have also published a news article for InfoQ where I asked all of the Agile speakers at the conference what the Agile community needs to embrace in 2012.

Channel 9 were at the conference and recorded a number of video interviews with speakers that are well worth viewing. Peter Sellars has also written a comprehensive wrap-up of the day 1 talks.

Agile Academy Meetup: Agile & Lean Games

Last week, the Agile Academy had a games night for its November 2011 meetup, to cap off the year, hosted by Adrian Smith from Ennova.

The three games we played were the XP Game, Lean Paper Plane Game and Kanban Soduko. We ended the night with the Marshmallow Challenge.

You can also view the pictures from the night.

Twitter Summary November 2011

A summary of my Twitter posts from November 2011:

2011-11-30 03:25:41
smithcdau: RT @badbanana: With American Airlines stock at 20 cents, I can’t decide between paying for two checked bags or buying half the company.

2011-11-30 01:13:33
smithcdau: @PeterSellars Indeed, I didn’t do my homework and had to make it up on the fly. In the end I was going for entertainment

2011-11-29 12:20:35
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon what was his definition of social debt?

2011-11-29 12:17:03
smithcdau: @AgileRenee only 30 mins is a luxury even worse when nothing is open…

2011-11-29 11:18:56
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon no in Brisbane this week, Sydney the end of next week…

2011-11-28 10:25:44
smithcdau: RT @TheAgilePodcast: Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban war. A special on theJim Coplien blog available on Jeff Sutherland’s blog and the respo …

2011-11-27 20:43:38
smithcdau: Webber ends season with Brazil win http://t.co/4AodI86N #F1 (via @f1couk)

2011-11-27 07:01:56
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Congratulations, get that leave form in now!

2011-11-26 08:32:17
smithcdau: Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system (The Big Bang Theory S03E22) http://t.co/G0K80jlU

2011-11-26 05:55:51
smithcdau: The Brisbane River in time lapse –> http://t.co/V2ZzWYHs

2011-11-26 05:40:19
smithcdau: @jameswilliams90 Welcome to overcast Queensland…

2011-11-25 23:41:45
smithcdau: Great series but ending was quite lame (watching 24, Day 8: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM S08E24) http://t.co/89xTALSd

2011-11-25 11:43:56
smithcdau: So, did you write your dream on the…”index card of fate”? (watching The Simpsons, Bart Gets a ‘Z’ S21E02) http://t.co/6OTLxdU3

2011-11-25 11:37:16
smithcdau: I couldn’t help it! She knew my one weakness: That I’m weak! (watching The Simpsons, The Great Wife Hope S21E03) http://t.co/oux12kgG

2011-11-25 11:14:07
smithcdau: Diabetes! (watching Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Ty Burrell; Wilford Br… S07E275) http://t.co/kj2iLH1k

2011-11-24 11:47:21
smithcdau: Wheels down BNE (@ Brisbane Airport (BNE)) http://t.co/916SAKTj

2011-11-24 08:56:57
smithcdau: Quote of the day: “If you think test-first is expensive, try debug-later” (via @stevenmak) #yam

2011-11-24 08:46:35
smithcdau: Heading home after a long day (@ T1 (Domestic – Qantas & Jetstar) Terminal w/ 2 others) http://t.co/oz8Z2rKB

2011-11-24 04:19:37
smithcdau: Listening to great talks at the #agileaus Product Afternoon (@ Hilton on the Park Hotel w/ 2 others) http://t.co/pYEk01wO

2011-11-23 23:11:39
smithcdau: Wheels down MEL #qantasluxury (@ T1 (Domestic – Qantas & Jetstar) Terminal) http://t.co/NkBgCjwd

2011-11-23 20:54:44
smithcdau: RT @DianaOfPortland: TY @InfoQ for the pointer to #AgileAlliance Learning center content! http://t.co/XOcOXjMc or go direct http://t.co/ …

2011-11-23 20:47:09
smithcdau: RT @lehmo23: #virginluxury getting an exit row #tigerluxury getting a biscuit #qantasluxury getting a pilot, a plane, engineers and bag …

2011-11-23 20:20:57
smithcdau: Day trip to Melbourne for #agileaus (@ Domestic Terminal w/ 2 others) http://t.co/YtG0lQdY

2011-11-23 02:21:25
smithcdau: RT @andybrandt: Agile didn’t discover anything fundamentally new. It is essentially just a return to sanity and values in the workplace.

2011-11-23 02:19:00
smithcdau: Volunteering, painting a wall! Thanks @agilerenee for organising! (@ Ronald McDonald House) http://t.co/XXUzsfxs

2011-11-22 11:30:18
smithcdau: RT @tottinge: New experiment: put your acceptance tests into wordle. How many of the major words are related to your problem domain?

2011-11-21 12:07:31
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon …and I suppose you will retire to Hearst Castle on the weekends?

2011-11-20 14:07:09
smithcdau: …when I do kid, you will know it by my use of the word ”bazinga” (The Big Bang Theory S03E21) http://t.co/uCCS8fOX

2011-11-20 13:23:43
smithcdau: @shanehastie Have fun!

2011-11-20 08:25:41
smithcdau: And @jamiewhincup does it again, winning race 26 of @v8supercars at Sandown #v8sc

2011-11-20 22:26:49
smithcdau: I just ousted @paulcushworth as the mayor of 300 Queen Street on @foursquare! http://t.co/sV5OWz74

2011-11-19 09:39:29
smithcdau: A win for @rickkelly in a wet and wild race 25 at Sandown that had 4 safety cars, nice run from the back @craiglowndes888! #V8SC #sandown

2011-11-19 01:35:23
smithcdau: I just unlocked the “Wino” badge on @foursquare! Cheers! http://t.co/xN6RF88J

2011-11-18 09:26:16
smithcdau: Wheels down BNE (@ Brisbane Airport (BNE)) http://t.co/Wksbk2FC

2011-11-18 07:44:59
smithcdau: @paulk_asert I am still here, hopelessly delayed…

2011-11-18 07:41:15
smithcdau: RT @slatteryit: #AgileAus Product Afternoon is on next Thursday, featuring some great speakers – don’t forget to register! http://t.co/m …

2011-11-18 06:57:21
smithcdau: Busy week done, heading home… (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/ 4 others) http://t.co/PXZc9J5W

2011-11-17 07:58:34
smithcdau: Wheels down SYD (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/ 3 others) http://t.co/OujnbCPG

2011-11-17 06:25:33
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon Awesome, when you build your team let me know! Training across lunch tmrw, will have more flexibility on visit in 2 wks

2011-11-17 05:52:21
smithcdau: Melbourne training leg complete, now onto Sydney (@ T3 (Domestic - Virgin Australia & Regional Express) Terminal) http://t.co/u8uJlxP3

2011-11-16 08:18:01
smithcdau: Wheels down MEL (@ T3 (Domestic – Virgin Australia & Regional Express) Terminal w/ 5 others) http://t.co/I1iOoGqa

2011-11-16 05:54:46
smithcdau: Melbourne bound, that is the closest I have come to missing a plane… (@ Domestic Terminal w/ 6 others) http://t.co/Or43GYPI

2011-11-16 01:37:39
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon Nice! Still looking after GH or moving onto new challenges? I’ll be in Sydney Fri as well as in a couple of weeks if you free.

2011-11-15 21:38:47
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon DM me your link!

2011-11-15 12:20:00
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Oh yeah, that… the naughty list…

2011-11-15 12:15:45
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Looks good…

2011-11-15 12:09:53
smithcdau: @AgileRenee What did I do… I forgot…

2011-11-15 12:06:17
smithcdau: My Latest InfoQ News Article: Agile 2011 Videos Now Available On New Agile Alliance Learning Center: http://t.co/40p6tkHK #in

2011-11-15 11:59:13
smithcdau: RT @TheAgilePodcast: Episode 17: Some geekiness, bad smell practice bingo and daily retrospectives http://t.co/UO8iG1Yp, available on iT …

2011-11-15 11:58:03
smithcdau: @AgileRenee It never takes me that long to upload, and I wouldn’t say I am on a super fast connection either…

2011-11-15 11:46:34
smithcdau: @Weisbart No problem its a great idea & hope our mention went some way to more folks hearing about it (or at least shaking up their retros!)

2011-11-15 11:44:16
smithcdau: @lisacrispin If you use Firefox, you can export them out to a CSV file… I assume something similar might exist for other browsers.

2011-11-15 11:43:16
smithcdau: @PeterSellars Thanks mate, we’ll have to get you on sometime so we can debut “The Quality Dudes”!

2011-11-15 11:42:30
smithcdau: @PeterSellars Indeed! Hanging for a Muzza’s but schedule is quite full next couple of weeks…

2011-11-13 06:26:20
smithcdau: V8 Supercars Tasmania: @jamiewhincup sweeps the weekend, good speed from the @FPR_Australia cars as well #v8sc

2011-11-13 04:31:38
smithcdau: Updating a training course is so much harder than writing one from scratch I have decided… I may need to rethink my approach…

2011-11-12 09:40:55
smithcdau: Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager/scrum master: http://t.co/HZaVHfOd #yam

2011-11-12 09:35:31
smithcdau: @PeterSellars I was near garden city today. Have fun, say hi to Sarah for me.

2011-11-12 09:15:28
smithcdau: @PeterSellars clubbing tonight mate?

2011-11-12 07:41:59
smithcdau: GreenHopper 5.8 deep dive – DevOps & IT Operations with the Rapid Board http://t.co/Rt2ovqNE Nice!

2011-11-11 23:28:53
smithcdau: Infographic: Software Testing Recruitment http://t.co/43lNGV0Y #yam

2011-11-11 08:53:24
smithcdau: Great interview with Craig Ferguson (@CraigyFerg) –> http://t.co/JHoSHc8j @eleven_tv

2011-11-11 07:56:38
smithcdau: Behind the scenes video of Bert & Ernie recording voices for Tom Tom! http://t.co/11Bg02EP

2011-11-10 08:01:32
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Must. Take. Own. Advice.

2011-11-10 07:47:33
smithcdau: Lots of good questions at Taste of Agile training today… (@ Brisbane Square) http://t.co/1FKR4O5r

2011-11-09 21:19:15
smithcdau: @BillyGarnet tell me more!

2011-11-09 21:14:23
smithcdau: A Daily Standup on the USS Enterprise! http://t.co/nWZVFi61 #yam

2011-11-09 07:39:31
smithcdau: V8 Supercars veteran Russell Ingall leaves Paul Morris Motorsports for Walkinshaw Performance http://t.co/HXqo7HCb Not what I had expected.

2011-11-09 07:32:29
smithcdau: @dwhelan I am extremely interested in this and willing to help if needed as I need something similar here down under!

2011-11-08 10:51:14
smithcdau: @PeterSellars If only there was an app for posts like this…

2011-11-07 21:34:58
smithcdau: @PeterSellars Apparently it should feed iTunes. Ideas @AgileRenee @SvenNotnop?

2011-11-07 13:27:12
smithcdau: War of the Worlds… tells us in the olden days people were stupid too…… (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson…
http://t.co/h3PQa7F0

2011-11-07 08:01:18
smithcdau: Velocity is killing agility according to @jimhighsmith (and I couldn’t agree with him more!) http://t.co/doIXpzrC #yam

2011-11-06 21:18:03
smithcdau: Agile is not dead. There’s just not much of it actually getting done (via @drunkcod) #yam

2011-11-03 12:07:58
smithcdau: RT @TheAgilePodcast: Episode 16: Motivated to make walls fun http://t.co/bE7uJyfM just released! #agile

2011-11-02 12:35:28
smithcdau: I was just awarded the “Super Nerd” badge at http://t.co/H59qWnA4

2011-11-02 12:35:28
smithcdau: …should you ever need a slightly apathetic, tertiary friend, I stand at the ready
(The Big Bang Theory S04E16) http://t.co/m7lvYUk1

2011-11-02 09:43:46
smithcdau: Wheels down BNE (@ Brisbane Airport (BNE) w/ 2 others) http://t.co/YZR4bqVs

2011-11-02 07:57:13
smithcdau: @erik_petersen it’s still more of a gimmick than usable though. There is a YouTube clip the guys put up I can find if you’re interested

2011-11-02 07:01:28
smithcdau: Dang, delayed by at least 30 minutes… (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/ 4 others) http://t.co/bcpBnXIZ

2011-11-02 06:51:59
smithcdau: Long day, homeward bound (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/ 3 others) http://t.co/Zvkmq1P0

2011-11-02 03:23:13
smithcdau: @jonathanrcolema oh no, my tent

2011-11-02 03:22:04
smithcdau: I don’t always read fiction, but when I do it’s a spreadsheet with timelines in a developer meeting (@paisleyboxers) Bazinga! #yam

2011-11-01 21:55:46
smithcdau: Wheels down SYD, 15 mins early! (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/ 5 others) http://t.co/twNq2kbU

2011-11-01 20:27:59
smithcdau: @v8supercars No QR until 2102, that makes it the track of the future!

2011-11-01 20:16:36
smithcdau: @erik_petersen We have been experimenting using Kinect for virtual story walls using JIRA/GreenHopper

2011-11-01 20:07:09
smithcdau: Sydney bound for the day (@ Domestic Terminal) http://t.co/iBNRvhWS

2011-11-01 08:14:05
smithcdau: @lisacrispin I agree, it’s the looks good on paper syndrome, but in reality…

Twitter Summary October 2011

A summary of my Twitter posts from October 2011:

2011-10-31 13:31:51
smithcdau: Happy Halloween! I am going as a grumpy old man who doesn’t give out candy… … (Late Late Show With Craig Fer… http://t.co/E52hMRhb

2011-10-31 03:21:33
smithcdau: Bleeply lets you rethink that Tweet http://t.co/lxEQgTtg #yam

2011-10-31 21:38:04
smithcdau: RT @LeanYoda: Learning, essential unit of progress it is. #leanstartup

2011-10-30 13:46:43
smithcdau: Indian GP Race Results! Vettel Wins in India! http://t.co/4ptyMCKh (via @f1couk)

2011-10-30 04:39:16
smithcdau: It’s an alright wall… It’s The Alright Wall of China (watching An Idiot Abroad, China S01E01) http://t.co/SGglhlay

2011-10-28 12:16:32
smithcdau: RT @leighsales: “The original Mac team taught me that A-plus players like to work together and they don’t like it if you tolerate B work …

2011-10-28 11:19:17
smithcdau: @jeantabaka @erik_petersen My talk is up there too!

2011-10-28 09:14:45
smithcdau: Wheels down BNE (@ Domestic Terminal w/ 5 others) http://t.co/2uN1PT27

2011-10-28 06:52:47
smithcdau: Heading home, enjoying lounge thanks to Phil A… (@ Virgin Australia Lounge (T2 Multi-User Domestic) w/ 3 others) http://t.co/GtAMhio7

2011-10-28 00:20:37
smithcdau: Hey @SoftEdMan, what’s this I hear about no more STANZ or SDC conferences in Australia? http://t.co/rCW4tqPH #nomorestanz #nomoresdc

2011-10-26 08:40:37
smithcdau: Wheels down SYD (@ T3 Qantas Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/14 others) http://t.co/RfrlJYzF

2011-10-26 07:13:30
smithcdau: @testobsessed OK, I may be there sometime in Dec/Jan, so was wondering if our paths would cross…

2011-10-26 06:47:56
smithcdau: Sydney bound… (@ Domestic Terminal w/ 7 others) http://t.co/vTtgagMt

2011-10-25 07:42:14
smithcdau: RT @TweeterRo: 99% of the world’s cookies are consumed by 1% of the world’s monsters #occupysesamestreet lol

2011-10-25 22:08:54
smithcdau: My second news article now published on InfoQ: The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption: http://t.co/VP0ej8hW #in

2011-10-25 21:37:31
smithcdau: @testobsessed when are you in China?

2011-10-25 21:36:48
smithcdau: RT @dhemery: When life gives you lemons, eat lemons. Lemons are yummy!

2011-10-25 21:31:54
smithcdau: @justinhennessy RT @alisterscott: Position description from @atlassian used to advertise job at Everyday Hero Brisbane:
http://t.co/9N55Adbe

2011-10-24 12:25:57
smithcdau: RT @InfoQ: Article: Interview and Book Review: Specification by Example http://t.co/5Y99nlT6

2011-10-24 07:26:28
smithcdau: RT @Patrick_Star: I’ll procrastinate later; I don’t have time right now.

2011-10-23 21:34:37
smithcdau: RT @tetradian: RT @gkathan: RT @Leadershipfreak: Anyone can start something new. It takes real leaders to stop something old. #leadershi …

2011-10-23 09:14:16
smithcdau: Good agile advice for mainframe teams… Iteration Showcases for Backend Systems http://t.co/SVxc0hVL #yam

2011-10-23 06:56:12
smithcdau: Great drive Frosty! RT @FPR_Australia: @mwinterbottom @RichardLyons1 win #GC600 !!! #V8SC #GoFPR

2011-10-22 07:28:27
smithcdau: RT @v8dailydump: Whincup/Bourdais win Race 21 on the Gold Coast: http://t.co/UixQo7ml #V8SC #GC600

2011-10-21 07:51:00
smithcdau: Using an AppleTV as a Wallboard Monitor http://t.co/YRJAs1PY #yam

2011-10-21 04:21:30
smithcdau: Friday practice… (@ Gold Coast 600 w/ 10 others) http://t.co/irpYEuwx

2011-10-20 22:34:24
smithcdau: …it’s not a Unit Test http://t.co/GVnEAoF2 (@_pablosan) #yam

2011-10-20 12:36:02
smithcdau: RT @TheAgilePodcast: Episode 15: The perfect world of #Agile out now http://t.co/I4DGzoQ3 featuring @lyssaadkins @tothealistair @estherd …

2011-10-20 07:38:47
smithcdau: RT @JCourtney01: This one is for you mate #RIPDAN http://t.co/2pWqqHcz

2011-10-19 20:57:58
smithcdau: Nice! RT @GreenHopperTeam: GreenHopper 5.8: the Rapid Board with multiple project support! http://t.co/ltnErCaC #atlassian #jira #agile

2011-10-19 20:57:04
smithcdau: Why not velocity as an agile metric? (@estherderby) http://t.co/AuBPACSX

2011-10-19 09:36:53
smithcdau: Suncorp chides tech vendor for Agile blindspot –> http://t.co/5CFt9sBe

2011-10-18 06:40:12
smithcdau: Awesome! RT @stonebrothers: Great news! We can confirm that Helio Castroneves will race this weekend with Tim Slade

2011-10-18 13:45:36
smithcdau: @lisacrispin The twitter feed has links –> @TheAgilePodcast

2011-10-18 13:37:49
smithcdau: Finally, my wrap from #STANZ 2011: Day 1 (http://t.co/K9fi4BTn) Day 2 (http://t.co/6cT5GN5Q) Presentation (http://t.co/MG3uiKWl) #yam #in

2011-10-18 13:31:25
smithcdau: @lisacrispin I work with @AgileRenee, she blogs some interesting stuff! I also do a podcast with her as well!

2011-10-18 13:27:00
smithcdau: @dwhelan Awesome, sounds interesting!

2011-10-18 13:12:33
smithcdau: Tonight we are going to take crap to a new level… lower! (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson S07E251) http://t.co/4PBiKnDI

2011-10-18 12:17:27
smithcdau: RT @AgileRenee: Distributed teams – what can we learn in #Agile from #MMORPG gamers? Communication, focus, reflection - http://t.co/gOgXOhBL

2011-10-18 08:15:04
smithcdau: There is awful lot of people on this 257 for a route @TransLinkSEQ thinks has no patronage #annoyed

2011-10-18 08:05:17
smithcdau: Agile testers who regress into mini-waterfall style testing, should they be better renamed to ‘mini-waterfall testers’? (@huettermann) #yam

2011-10-18 07:58:23
smithcdau: Trying to argue reason with @translinkseq about removing my 257 bus route… (@ Capalaba Interchange) http://t.co/Gyapu7gD

2011-10-18 06:47:50
smithcdau: RT @V8SFG_News: Darren Turner has been announced as James Courtney team mate HRT for Gold Coast 600 http://t.co/GV2xYH9L

2011-10-18 06:45:54
smithcdau: @dwhelan sounds interesting, where do I learn more?

2011-10-17 21:25:44
smithcdau: I just unlocked the “Century Club” badge on @foursquare! http://t.co/leLpq66Y

2011-10-17 11:37:55
smithcdau: RT @V8SFG_News: Dane Allan Simonsen will replace Tony Kanaan alongside Jason Bargwanna in the Gold Coast 600 http://t.co/xEzQUpQx

2011-10-17 09:22:40
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Seen this? http://t.co/y8M2s8uH

2011-10-17 09:20:11
smithcdau: @LaurenLee_ That’s what I said in the comments…

2011-10-17 07:45:55
smithcdau: @alisterscott Congratulations

2011-10-17 07:35:51
smithcdau: RT @v8supercars: Richard Lyons to replace Will Power in the #5 Falcon #GC600 #V8SC

2011-10-17 07:26:03
smithcdau: @LaurenLee_ Can you please go to Translink site and fill out survey so 257 is not removed if you haven’t already. Thanks!

2011-10-17 03:07:00
smithcdau: Mark Skaife retires from @V8Supercars racing –> http://t.co/MBW9n11M

2011-10-16 22:55:00
smithcdau: Sad loss today of IRL & Indy 500 champion Dan Wheldon, in a horrific crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

2011-10-16 22:52:57
smithcdau: RT @rolldiggity: It’s sad how Wile E. Coyote is remembered for his violence, and not for his brilliantly realistic paintings of tunnels.

2011-10-16 11:41:41
smithcdau: NASCAR Charlotte: Kenseth wins, good effort from @MarcosAmbrose for 5th place

2011-10-16 11:39:23
smithcdau: F1 Korea: Vettel wins, but awesome battle for second between Hamilton & Webber

2011-10-16 03:47:20
smithcdau: What @GuyKawasaki Learned From Steve Jobs –>http://t.co/qODq0Atz. Some good lessons in there. #yam

2011-10-16 03:14:37
smithcdau: Leadership Skills: Tap Into Team Members’ Existing Motivation (@ChristopherAver) http://t.co/unQUQmSI #yam

2011-10-16 03:09:55
smithcdau: Quality is Alive (you just need to find the pulse) –>http://t.co/cINrLI9K (@hogfish) #yam

2011-10-16 02:47:35
smithcdau: Why I am in support @atlassian http://t.co/UMzkd3vu. Demonstrates how good support leads to good products & happy customers #yam

2011-10-16 00:51:43
smithcdau: Don’t mix DevOps with DevOops. The latter describes the wow factor seeing code make it to production without tests (via @huettermann) #yam

2011-10-15 08:26:35
smithcdau: Good series, went downhill for a bit at the start of S3, deserved a better ending (Lie to Me S03E13) http://t.co/vHsRRVRT

2011-10-14 09:53:49
smithcdau: I was just awarded the “Office Party” badge at http://t.co/h7WNnRjr

2011-10-14 08:10:15
smithcdau: V8 Supercars street pit stop in Brisbane (while I was in Sydney) :-( http://t.co/PW4kbXQg

2011-10-14 07:15:00
smithcdau: Wheels down BNE (@ Domestic Terminal w/ 3 others) http://t.co/lTlV4r8B

2011-10-14 04:59:27
smithcdau: Homeward bound, but flight delayed… (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport – SYD) w/ 3 others) http://t.co/YaL6H2Nr

2011-10-13 10:09:34
smithcdau: Blue Volkswagen, Punch Bug! (watching Two and a Half Men, People Who Love Peepholes S09E02) http://t.co/ZElMwuVv

2011-10-12 09:33:52
smithcdau: Wheels down hard SYD (@ T2 Multi-User Domestic (Sydney Airport -SYD) w/ 7 others) http://t.co/7vySCH9c

2011-10-12 07:17:45
smithcdau: Sydney bound, feels like an eternity since I was last in an airport… (@ Domestic Terminal) http://t.co/ZIH1N0dM

2011-10-12 06:02:54
smithcdau: @markmansour Looking good, like the stats updating…

2011-10-11 13:15:42
smithcdau: RT @codingbynumbers: Ep29-Conferences is out! Featuring @smithcdau @codemiller & @tglee Covering #lca2011, #uberconf, #pycon, #osdc, #os …

2011-10-10 11:49:57
smithcdau: @jameswilliams90 Nicely said…

2011-10-10 10:59:22
smithcdau: @AgileRenee So how many inches are you drooling over?

2011-10-10 10:09:20
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Gartner can dream up their own numbers all by themselves! I have fodder for the next podcast however…

2011-10-10 09:40:31
smithcdau: @twasink me RTing it was somewhat cynical

2011-10-10 09:39:17
smithcdau: RT @rowanb: We have special #Scrum training opportunities in 2-3 weeks with myself & Carlton Nettleton, CST from the USA. http://t.co/VC …

2011-10-10 09:31:57
smithcdau: Gartner’s analysts predict by 2012 agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects (via @typemock)

2011-10-10 07:27:26
smithcdau: RT @LeanBlog: Saying an empty room should “pull” a patient from ER misses the point completely. Patient should pull resources when they …

2011-10-10 06:48:51
smithcdau: What will KANBAN bring in to offshore projects? –>http://t.co/qoYGDRND

2011-10-10 06:18:41
smithcdau: Agile Development – To Scrum or Not to Scrum? (Offshore) –> http://t.co/7VzjShG5

2011-10-10 06:02:08
smithcdau: Distributed Scrum – Integrating Offshore Resources –>http://t.co/kj648hqU

2011-10-09 11:48:35
smithcdau: @teradee Hey Jason, I assume you mean the one from Agile 2011 –> http://t.co/CC7xk3Xf (also on the Agile 2011 site as well)

2011-10-09 10:39:25
smithcdau: RT @newsycombinator: Customs Form filled by Apollo 11 http://j.mp/qmEHn5

2011-10-09 10:36:21
smithcdau: Formula 1 Japan: Button wins whilst Vettel is World Champion again! Race report here: http://t.co/oJkxSUXN (via @f1couk)

2011-10-09 06:09:19
smithcdau: V8 Supercars #Bathurst1000: @GarthTander narrowly beats @craiglowndes888 in an exciting finish, Murphy 3rd

2011-10-09 21:41:16
smithcdau: Here is @iJasonBright showing NASCAR legend @AllWaltrip a HOT LAP at Bathurst 1000 http://ow.ly/6ROSE

2011-10-09 21:39:13
smithcdau: @AllWaltrip There is live coverage on @SPEEDTVAUS, but sometimes finding somewhere that has SPEED can be difficult

2011-10-08 10:01:22
smithcdau: Rule #6: Never say you’re sorry (watching NCIS, Restless S09E02) http://t.co/spmXoCIS

2011-10-08 07:42:00
smithcdau: Phew! That was close! The Simpsons safe for two more seasons after pay dispute deal | News.com.au: http://t.co/lxR8hpAJ

2011-10-08 07:39:55
smithcdau: @SvenNotnop Thanks for the RT Tony and @AgileAcademy

2011-10-08 05:47:31
smithcdau: @jroyals Thanks for RT Jason!

2011-10-08 05:46:07
smithcdau: @AgileRenee Thanks for RT Renee!

2011-10-08 05:37:18
smithcdau: V8 Supercars Bathurst Top 10 Shootout: Murphy puts it on pole in a rain-affected shootout, Will Davison 2nd at the expense of Holdsworth

2011-10-08 02:21:54
smithcdau: @benarnott Thanks for the RT mate!

2011-10-08 02:18:27
smithcdau: InfoQ: Individuals and Interactions are Important, but so are Processes and Tools: http://t.co/pBGrEbTn (my first InfoQ article!) #in

2011-10-08 01:34:45
smithcdau: @lisacrispin Did you sort the email issue?

2011-10-08 01:29:48
smithcdau: @lisacrispin http://t.co/zTJ9IPVl

2011-10-08 01:29:10
smithcdau: @lisacrispin Unfortunately Apple blocked Amazon from selling books inside the app, so you need to do it via Safari on iPad or via your MBP

2011-10-08 01:14:05
smithcdau: There is a store inside the Kindle App. You need to login or register with Amazon first. You can also transfer books in…

2011-10-08 01:08:15
smithcdau: @lisacrispin Click the little green box that says install.

2011-10-07 02:35:36
smithcdau: @lisacrispin check it is not stuck in the outbox…

2011-10-07 01:58:12
smithcdau: RT @v8supercars: Looks like J. Whincup could miss qualifying today with the damage sustained in P5 #bathurst1000 http://t.co/Zow0vs1v

2011-10-07 01:56:40
smithcdau: @huettermann I do the opposite at Agile conferences

2011-10-07 01:48:52
smithcdau: If a test fails, how many things could be wrong? The closer the answer is to 1, the more “unit-y” the test is (via @KentBeck) #yam

2011-10-07 01:18:23
smithcdau: RT @v8dailydump: Shane van Gisbergen fastest in Practice 5 at Bathurst: http://t.co/TJgRfuTJ #V8SC #Bathurst1000

2011-10-06 23:33:48
smithcdau: RT @v8dailydump: McConville fastest in ‘drying’ practice 4 at Bathurst: http://t.co/6vt33FRk #V8SC #Bathurst1000

2011-10-06 20:49:31
smithcdau: RT @TotherAlistair: Individuals and interactions over blah blah blah http://t.co/0AZcyJVp I think originally from Alexey Krivitsky …

2011-10-06 20:36:30
smithcdau: RT @sdw: If you want to honor Steve, don’t mourn. Do your best work every day. Live your life to the fullest. Never settle. His spirit …

2011-10-06 01:10:20
smithcdau: Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: The Web Remembers (via @mashable) http://t.co/l9qiLFDe

2011-10-05 14:42:05
smithcdau: Nooooooooo! RT @SimpsonsChannel: Here We Go Again, A Money Dispute May End The Simpsons – http://t.co/qKemT4Ly #ayecarumba

2011-10-05 13:32:53
smithcdau: The iPhone 4S… the S stands for suckers! (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson S07E242) http://t.co/tuxtOOQp

2011-10-05 13:28:46
smithcdau: RT @TheAgilePodcast: Podcast #14: Quoting #Agile, Lean & Kanban. Lean startups, great workplaces, Quotable Kanban & @philxan problembag …

2011-10-05 11:24:12
smithcdau: I really hate listening to my own recorded voice, you know… #ummm

2011-10-04 14:23:52
smithcdau: There’s a difference between mouth open & mouth closed! (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson S07E241) http://t.co/OVo2FJCK

2011-10-03 12:27:19
smithcdau: @TotherAlistair Tried propping it on a plastic bottle

2011-10-03 08:57:45
smithcdau: Abraca-Milhouse! (watching The Simpsons, The Great Simpsina S22E18) http://t.co/dJtzvFqo

2011-10-02 09:37:06
smithcdau: Rule #36: If you feel like you’re being played, you probably are (watching NCIS, Nature of the Beast S09E01) http://t.co/FONy7tCu

2011-10-01 07:22:04
smithcdau: We are Geelong, the greatest team of all! Well done Cats! 2011 AFL Premiers #aflgf

2011-10-01 05:15:30
smithcdau: Go Cats!

2011-10-01 00:56:40
smithcdau: @LaurenLee_ yeah, what’s your excuse, it had better be good

STANZ 2011: The Future Tester At Suncorp – A Journey of Building Quality In Through Agile

My presentation from STANZ 2011 that I delivered with Adrian Smith and Dallas Thorneycroft called “The Future Tester At Suncorp: A Journey of Building Quality In Through Agile” is available on Slideshare.

 

STANZ 2011 Day 2 Review

Day 2 of STANZ 2011 in Melbourne, here are my notes from the sessions.

The Future of Quality

Goranka Bjedov from Facebook gave this somewhat controversial talk first up, the slides and videos are available here.

From STANZ 2011

• value of quality is lower than the price of quality – quality is dead
• you may get a quality product (sometimes) but you always get an expensive product
• quality matters for human life, security and money
• systems are designed for redundancy these days so most of the time nothing will go wrong
• people value free over quality
• we live in a world where quality doesn’t matter, we are used to things failing
• restructure what you are doing – don’t focus on catching big bugs, but focus on productivity testing, reduce the cost of development and speed it up
• it is cheaper to fix a bug when the customer finds it now we are moving to the cloud
• organisations are now paying people to find security bugs, people will test for free for a free device, some companies will offer jobs if you find a bug
• need to start communicating value of work in a language people understand – how much did we save?

Test Process Improvement: Testers Get Out Of Your Cave!

Jan Jaap Cannegieter presented this session.

From STANZ 2011

• TMMi – maturity framework for testing, public domain, find out how mature your test processes are
• CMMi only has 5 pages on testing
• TMMi has 5 levels – initial > managed > defined > management and measurement > optimization
• start at level 2 when assessing
• results from some TMMi quick scan assessments in 20 organisations – test reporting 30%, test planning 41%, test monitoring 47%, test design 60%, test environment 59%
• test design is probably high because it can be influenced within the testing team, whereas planning and reporting, etc.. require people outside of your team
• testing teams are in a cave, need to get out of the cave and use the rest of the organisation
• stakeholder definition – the most important people at the BBQ – the hold the power, they have mindset and ambition
• it’s all political – politics is a way of life – you need to get in front of the leaders and stakeholders and have political skills

Why Model-Driven Testing is of Great Relevance to Test Managers and Test Analysts

Thomas Hadorn from Tricentis gave this very vendor driven presentation.

From STANZ 2011

• Gartner believe model driven testing will become dominant in next 5 years
• capture/replay is too fragile, develop/replay test frameworks are too costly because they need to be programmatically extended
• model driven only one type of test – no scripts to maintain

The Future Tester At Suncorp: A Journey of Building Quality In Through Agile

I presented this session with Adrian Smith from Ennova and Dallas Thorneycroft from Suncorp. The slides are available in a separate post.

From STANZ 2011

From STANZ 2011

From STANZ 2011

Testing Skills : How To Find and Develop Skilled Testers

Goranka Bjedov from Facebook led this hands on workshop.

Amongst other exercises, she introduced the game of Set.

• card has characteristics – colour (purple, green, red), pattern (full, empty, striped), shape (oval, diamond, squiggle)
• when a characteristic matches or is different on all 3 sets you have a match
• very hard to get a set
• deal 12 cards
• makes testing fun

She also introduced the dice game and auction game using decks of cards.

STANZ 2011 Day 1 Review

The STANZ (Software Testing Australia New Zealand) 2011 conference was held in Wellington and Melbourne on the last week of August (into September). I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the Melbourne event by my good friends at Software Education, who were the promoters of the event.  I rolled up on the back of a flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane (and then Brisbane to Melbourne) a little jet lagged, but got heaps from the event.

From STANZ 2011

Here are my notes from day one of the conference.

Am I Creating Value With My Testing?

Jonathon Kohl presented this session, a copy of his video and his slides is available here.

From STANZ 2011

• ask questions of the CEO about the vision and what the product is supposed to do, listen to customer support calls, talk to marketing, talk to the developers about what bugs they value
• what are the top 10 things people love and hate about your software?
• look for efficiency – use checklists instead of test cases, forget about regression testing and use the computer to be more efficient
• testing is about creating value for the people who matter most, your customers
• people need an emotional attachment to your product – the share market is an example of a product driven by emotion
• we need to create value for our customers, but just as importantly for ourselves
• we can’t just focus on business value – it’s a big stick that will erode morale
• talk to your customers – what do they need, what do they like, dislike, what is missing?
• talk to team – what do they like about your work, how can you be better?
• self evaluation – what is new in the field, am I enjoying work, what do other team members focus on or find things that I miss?
• avoid blame – excuses rather than finding and solving real problems – “we wouldn’t have this problem if we we doing agile”, “management don’t get testing”, etc… – feels good to say but is not constructive
• don’t expect tools or processes to rescue you – look out for your own best interests, know the problem you are solving and use the tools/process to solve it and ensure you have a way to measure it
• the key to creating value is alignment – people in different jobs or teams often have different goals
• leaders – clearly articulate vision and goals to the testing team and how does that align to our goals for the product and company, leadership comes from everyone in the team, leaders need to manage the politics (an organisation with more than one person will have politics)
• need to continually inject change and keep people interested
• people have skills, they are not resources – find your talents and invest in it
• understand your context – every team will be different
• tangible quality can be measured by understanding if the stakeholders needs are met and if you are meeting ROI, intangible quality is important and not often taken seriously – would you be afraid if you mother used this, would you like your name on the splash screen?
• impress the most important stakeholder – you!
• most people don’t know what great testing is – you can be shocked and appalled by what most people think is good, strive to be better
• tangibly getting better – learn about planning and strategy and exploit the opportunities, write good bug reports as developers really value this, be good at communicating what needs to be done and where we are going, take more responsibility and display competence in basic technical skills
• intangibly getting better – be in demand for your testing service, have good problem solving ability
• use external communities to develop your testing skills
• work as though your favourite person in testing was coming to visit
• need to be able justify your work – is your testing defensible
• use repeatable or intermittent bugs as a clue to something bigger – don’t ignore the anomalies
• testing is like journalism – need to do crazy things to get the story, move towards the issues, people need the news today not tomorrow
• need to have a technical curiosity about what is going on in the community – what is coming down the pipe, what are the people that have the ability to change things doing?

Overall this was a refreshing session to see a passion in testing and improving skill, with some excellent sound bytes along the way.

What Does A CEO Want From Testing

Mark Feldman from IV&V Australia delivered this presentation.

From STANZ 2011

• the CEO is accountable for delivery, protecting his reputation
• the CEO is not going to check test cases unless you look like a risk (ie. front page of the newspaper)
• governance is a CEO buzzword that covers a bunch of things
• need to provide more than alignment - creativity and innovation
• looking for thought leaders and competitiveness enhancement not 80/20 maintenance work
• CEO wants creative disruption along with well run divisions
• testing needs to be proactive rather than reactive
• have some answers about the cloud – how it affects the team
• CEOs like ERP because they believe there is less risk

Working With Remote & Distributed Teams

Karen Johnson delivered this session.

From STANZ 2011

• we are not alone – through Twitter and Skype you can connect with great people
• understand time zones and calculate meetings for each persons time zone, put the number in the meeting request
• rotate inconvenient team calls – when people are in very inconvenient time zones such as India
• recalculate time differences again when people are travelling
• important to have a usable workable space – particularly when working from home
• some people have trust issues, so ask what have you done for them to have doubts
• you just can’t work from Starbucks, could you invite your boss to your home workspace
• be aware on calls when people are not in the room – handing out documents or drawing on the whiteboard
• get to know your remote people and get to meet them in person when you can
• observe with your ears – look for clues to mood and listen for tone

From Jaded To Jubilant: Invigorating Your Test Team

Anne-Marie Charrett delivered this presentation.

From STANZ 2011

• wanted a team that had long term motivation, so could not motivate with carrots
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – mostly people are successful because they are in the right place at the right time
• before you can motivate a team you need to ask yourself how motivated you are – what gets you up in the morning about testing
• know your testers – give your testers a testing challenge to understand how they test, also understand what they want to get out of testing
• important that your test team knows that you believe in them and that they are being listened to, important that they get excited about testing again
• testers are paid to think – test scenarios often go against that
• think about for every test, how is it adding value to the company
• testers need to take responsibility – make and defend decisions
• you sometimes need to let go of your own goals – the team need to feel empowered
• exploratory testing – the tester needs to decide when it is good enough, this is the way testing is and it is hard to estimate - session based test management (SBTM) and Rapid Reporter (enter your charter/objective – time stamps and records test sessions)

I really enjoyed this session, although it reminded me how many organisations still have large test separate teams.

Test Planning for Mobile Application Projects

Jonathon Kohl delivered this session, based on some Techwell articles (part 1 and part 2).

From STANZ 2011

• implications – power, display size, portability, connectivity, radios, large number of devices
• less power than a PC – multitasking can freeze memory, interactions with O/S can have a big impact, kinetic input (tapping, touching, pinching) can have strange behaviours, needed to test using physical movement to replicate locking
• connectivity – strange things happen when moving between WiFi, 3G and 4G, driving also causes issues
• distribution – you do not have control of distribution in app stores, read the guidelines and understand the timelines early
• mobile project issues – time pressures due to market competition, smaller applications, constant change in environments, handsets, software, very programmer centric environments so planning, testing, etc is viewed as a bat anchor, lots of competition, high risk if your application does not work as expected
• testers need to prove their worth as rigid approaches will leave you behind
• key is to focus on test execution rather than planning, because everything is going to change anyway
• need a strategy on how you are going to test, what devices you are going to buy, how are you going to manage the devices/cables because they go missing easily (had to chain cables to a hubcap!)
• find out strategies that you are targeting so you can procure equipment
• emulators are useful for basic testing, better to use real device of target platform, developers would have used the emulator anyway
• supporting IOS 3 to IOS 4.1 resulted in 104 combinations between multiple devices, etc – classification trees are good to explain permutations and combinations
• automation is still in initial infancy – not as nice as web applications at this point
• devices are being exploited to do combined activities so need to exploit this in testing
• we use these devices in environments where we do not use a PC – they are addictive and are part of our lives
• testing will involve leaving the office and moving around to mimic what the users are doing – determine high value because everybody will want to do this testing!
• tricky to get devices that you are targeting - standing in line for the iPhone!
• may need to target different carriers and plans as technologies can be different
• think about logistics of storage, charging, etc…
• ergonomics are an issue whe testing mobile devices – shorter work days, can be painful on fingers, people are 25% less productive on these devices than PCs
• health is an issue because devices are shared and illness spreads fast – hand sanitizers, wiping devices after use, washing hands frequently
• need to factor in training as there are lots of way to use devices
• taking screen shots is a lot more painful than web applications
• usability testing – no standards unfortunately, look for user emotions, perceived lack of performance, one of the most important things on these devices
• performance testing – no real tools, can jailbreak IOS, some emlators have rudimentary tools, can affect performance of device, use stopwatches, spoof the headers, emulate on a machine using small memory footprints and look for speed
• security is often a trade-off with performance
• can automate using emulator in a browser, tools are rudimentary, vendors are clamouring in the space, Opera has a mobile mode

Planning

• influenced by James Bach’s Statisfice Test Plan Evaluation Model and Test Planning Guide
• planning needs to be a parallel activity, do just enough in regulated environments, video can be good to replace test cases, need to meet their intent and needs but rather than giving them what they ask for give them something better
• research your customers for your scenario tests – how they will use the app, are they locals or visitors, is it easy to understand outside context (eg. train schedules)
• trick – search ” sucks” to find and exploit common problems
• allow time to keep up-to-date with platform changes
• remember to test technology like GPS, graphics, camera, video, sound, messaging, data
• Smashing Magazine – good resource for usability
• modeling state allows you to get understanding quickly
• risk vs reward testing – focus on what is value – if you need to demo to get funding, test that the demo will work and not crash
• quality attributes – HP’s FURPS
• may need to set time aside for guidance documentation
• put structure and timebox around exploratory testing so that everybody knows what mission and goal is – look at application from different perspectives
• express completeness as how have we done and how much we have to go from different perspectives
• Session Tester – video is good for brining new testers in, easier to digest than written down test cases
• estimating – use uncertainty models (Software Estimation by Steve McConnell), Galton Estimation tool – like to use P90 – give a range, use S curve to give confidence matched to dates
• regulators are worried about repeatability – they like formal session based testing
• adapted James Bach’s testing dashboard

10th Anniversary Conference Dinner

Anders Sorman-Nilsson, author of Thinque Funky, gave a very entertaining and thought provoking dinner speech.

Twitter Summary September 2011

A summary of my Twitter posts from September 2011:

2011-09-30 13:25:44
smithcdau: @AgileRenee You’re just jealous

2011-09-30 13:20:46
smithcdau: @twasink You need the “I need to go to work and finish the Henderson account” excuse or something…

2011-09-30 13:19:48
smithcdau: @LaurenLee_ Train in the morning sometimes, bus always in the evening. Its not like I see my bus buddy anymore

2011-09-30 13:15:46
smithcdau: @twasink I had planned a technical type talk but had forgotten about it, so put in an agile one but probably unlikely it will get up

2011-09-30 13:14:34
smithcdau: @twasink You could be sick that day

2011-09-30 13:09:10
smithcdau: Submitted a talk for @dddbrisbane at the last responsible moment! #dddbrisbane

2011-09-30 12:50:00
smithcdau: Plato would say “Knowledge is the food of the soul… & it goes great with banana muffins”… (Late Late Show Wi… http://t.co/OYEOF2QT

2011-09-29 21:06:34
smithcdau: Primary output for acceptance criteria for a story is shared learning about the story. The tests are a nice side effect (via @zspencer) #yam

2011-09-29 20:55:47
smithcdau: I just ousted Madison S. as the mayor of Wellington Point Railway Station on @foursquare! http://t.co/tPl1HBpR

2011-09-28 21:27:55
smithcdau: Lean against Agile – really? http://t.co/xck25ngI #yam

2011-09-28 09:13:34
smithcdau: Bathurst V8 Supercars 2007 Opener –> http://t.co/NnPX2VK0

2011-09-27 21:30:14
smithcdau: @AgileSmith that might be a good thing…

2011-09-27 02:27:20
smithcdau: The 2011 guide to making people feel old using movie dates –> http://t.co/kAxA9Qua #offthechart

2011-09-26 12:04:33
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon Reviewed your proposal, I feel the love!

2011-09-26 12:02:42
smithcdau: RT @iqnite: @paulk_asert will be leading a workshop on ”Leveraging Emerging Technologies in #Agile Teams” on Day 2 of #iqniteau - http:/ …

2011-09-26 10:01:21
smithcdau: @nickmuldoon I’ll review yours if you review mine!

2011-09-26 06:35:24
smithcdau: @ssanj I really want to read that, I look forward to your review

2011-09-25 21:12:55
smithcdau: RT @snscaimito: No such thing as Agile Coach. Being agile is a mindset shared by many. However there is a need for Software Development …

2011-09-25 14:40:00
smithcdau: F1 Singapore: Yawn! Vettel wins again, Button’s second place keeps championship alive for one more race.

2011-09-25 05:47:17
smithcdau: @jameswilliams90 Indeed it is #switchingofftoo

2011-09-24 11:10:40
smithcdau: @twasink Hatch, match or dispatch?

2011-09-24 09:28:05
smithcdau: Go Cats!

2011-09-24 06:24:09
smithcdau: ♫♪♬ Listening to So Fresh The Hits of Winter 2011 ♫♪♬

2011-09-24 04:49:37
smithcdau: ♫♪♬ Listening to Now The Hits of Autumn 2011 ♫♪♬

2011-09-24 00:40:29
smithcdau: @alanbustamante Thanks Alan, hope the trip went well!

2011-09-24 00:39:58
smithcdau: @AndrewWoody Hopefully that gives the interview a little more context…

2011-09-24 14:37:36
smithcdau: It’s like accidently walking into a gay bar and nobody hitting on you. (The Big Bang Theory S04E14) http://t.co/GXnaLVR1

2011-09-23 07:46:51
smithcdau: Why Success Always Starts With Failure http://t.co/ahvt2blm. Draws many comparisons to what we hold important in Agile. #yam

2011-09-22 21:13:19
smithcdau: InfoQ: Lean Startup or Agile or Lean Startup and Agile? The dangers of the new shiny… http://t.co/gTxyKDVV #yam

2011-09-22 13:06:09
smithcdau: RT @21apps: @21apps I’m the business and agile was my idea: I’ve been brought up on trying to improve the way I develop soft… http://t …

2011-09-22 13:03:05
smithcdau: @AndrewWoody Glad you enjoyed the interview & thanks for the mention in the blog post! Did you see the related preso?
http://t.co/3oO6xQl3

2011-09-22 12:57:15
smithcdau: RT @AndrewWoody: Worth watching ‘I’m the business and Agile was my idea’ http://t.co/mvcbyKAs – My @SharePointCoE team will relate to a …

2011-09-22 12:07:34
smithcdau: @mlevison Thanks for the RT’s. The only problem with going on vacation after the conference is that the blog posts take time to go out!

2011-09-22 12:05:36
smithcdau: Agile 2011 Day 5 Review –> http://t.co/SCq019jz #agile2011 #yam
#in

2011-09-22 10:49:38
smithcdau: @v8supercars I am the chosen one! I can drive Bathurst in my mind, identify all the cars/drivers at a glance, tweet/facebook like a champion

2011-09-22 09:56:44
smithcdau: Hold on to your hats! The tech writers are innovating! http://t.co/RE8umz2c #yam

2011-09-22 08:52:29
smithcdau: RT @slatteryit: Save the date! Agile Aus’12 – Adapt, Innovate, Collaborate Deliver! 30-31 May 2012, Melbourne. Submit your speaker propo …

2011-09-21 23:32:23
smithcdau: Suncorp, ANZ ready virtual desktop rollouts http://t.co/kQthVA1x via @itnews_au #yam

2011-09-21 14:00:05
smithcdau: Agile 2011 Day 4 Review –> http://t.co/YDPnXWB4 #agile2011 #yam #in

2011-09-20 22:23:20
smithcdau: Piloting day 0 of a new agile test automation course with @adrianlsmith & @aspinall (@ Brisbane Square) http://t.co/MU1F2Wr3

2011-09-20 21:11:20
smithcdau: The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review: http://t.co/vD2KwYo7

2011-09-20 14:35:47
smithcdau: Trying to improve quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often (@rowanb) #yam

2011-09-20 14:30:11
smithcdau: RT @thriftebook: Specification by Example (Manning) – http://t.co/QeegNwGX — Get half off the eBook or pBook Enter dotd0920 in the …

2011-09-20 12:57:32
smithcdau: My copy of Agile ALM by @huettermann from @ManningBooks arrived! I’m quoted on the cover & acknowledged inside http://t.co/0QPNbrmD #yam #in

2011-09-20 12:28:49
smithcdau: @TotherAlistair I would have been quicker, but we are a little behind down under!

2011-09-20 12:15:47
smithcdau: Agile 2011 Day 3 Review –> http://t.co/MHnnO84z #agile2011 #yam #in

2011-09-20 08:00:48
smithcdau: @AgileRenee except you’re a day late… #walktheplank

2011-09-20 07:57:36
smithcdau: RT @kb: If I can understand your presentation by reading your deck without you speaking to it, you’re doing it wrong.

2011-09-20 07:51:56
smithcdau: @TotherAlistair in the Vaio Control Center there is an option, you may need to reboot though…

2011-09-20 07:46:31
smithcdau: RT @DrTwittenheimer: After the break-up, Pong went on to become an extremely influential video game. Ping, sadly, just tests internet co …

2011-09-19 13:21:17
smithcdau: Agile 2011 Day 2 Review –> http://t.co/SE9nUgAr #agile2011 #yam #in

2011-09-19 12:36:44
smithcdau: Great to see a local company (5 minutes down the road in Cleveland) (Undercover Boss Australia S02E02) http://t.co/Ll8PwmlN

2011-09-19 10:05:32
smithcdau: @AgileRenee @twasink It did one too many trips from Brisbane Square to Suncorp Centre, and the wheels just fell off…

2011-09-19 07:41:23
smithcdau: Taste of Agile done! But the wheels literally fell off the training trolley… (@ Suncorp Centre) http://t.co/fCyRWpkI

2011-09-18 13:02:50
smithcdau: V8 Supercars L&H 500 Philip Island: Well done @craiglowndes888 & Mark Skaife on repeat win, unfortunate that Giz couldn’t sustain the charge

2011-09-18 12:58:36
smithcdau: Agile 2011 Day 1 Review –> http://t.co/t9EfA1jT #agile2011 #yam #in

2011-09-16 22:35:45
smithcdau: RT @TheAgilePodcast: Podcast #13: #Agile, Stories & the #scrum update. Wrap up & quotes from @TotherAlistair @lunivore @dhemery @AgileRe…

2011-09-16 22:27:59
smithcdau: Nicely put Mark! RT @mlevison: This cannot be said enough: agile testing is a whole team sport. #yam

2011-09-16 10:55:08
smithcdau: @adrianlsmith I only just saw this tweet now…

2011-09-16 01:52:43
smithcdau: Awesome discussion with @justinhennessy on agile adoption issues. (@ Hard Coffee) http://t.co/7UY5FSmR

2011-09-15 13:48:41
smithcdau: You’re watching the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where being dumb isn’t just cool, it… (Late Late Show … http://t.co/O4DTp2Eo

2011-09-15 07:44:13
smithcdau: RT @twasink: The avg. dev writes an avg. ~20 lines of code a day. The better devs “write” an average _negative_ lines of code a day… #yam

2011-09-15 07:28:40
smithcdau: Different surroundings for today’s Taste of Agile class, same great learnings http://t.co/Ht6sUKUQ

2011-09-14 20:59:57
smithcdau: RT @dhemery: “Done done” leads to “done done done,” & pretty soon you’re singing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. And still you’re not done #yam

2011-09-14 20:58:19
smithcdau: Dealing with Split teams and Communication –> http://t.co/KN5NwFEq. Nice work @jonathanrcolema! (via @scrumology blog)

2011-09-14 20:36:53
smithcdau: RT @AgileRenee: Epics, Themes, Stories, Features, MMFs in #agile - are you confused too? http://t.co/mvFoklp

2011-09-14 13:29:15
smithcdau: I’m not really in television, I’m just a creepy guy in a basement (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson S07E227) http://t.co/LQ4wCvy

2011-09-14 08:33:00
smithcdau: Listening to @rowanb describe complex vs complicated at Brisbane Scrum User Group (@ S Block w/ 3 others) http://t.co/E8Mj5Ae

2011-09-13 00:58:30
smithcdau: The Only Agile Tools You’ll Ever Need –> http://t.co/vztCm2e

2011-09-13 13:32:25
smithcdau: It’s kinda like Star Wars but without the gay robot!… (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson S07E212) http://t.co/A484Xjo

2011-09-13 09:07:19
smithcdau: The @mbfhealth website is woeful. Its poor implementation means my direct debit failed & there is no easy way to make a payment either #fail

2011-09-12 11:37:01
smithcdau: Notes from the AAFTT Workshop held at Agile 2011 in Salt Lake City (better late than never) –> http://t.co/e8mEY6i #agile2011 #aaftt #yam

2011-09-12 09:38:02
smithcdau: Everyman…is the worst movie ever. And send. And sip. (watching The Simpsons, Homer the Whopper S21E01) http://t.co/NWzJZgt

2011-09-11 21:30:19
smithcdau: @codemiller Well done Katie, and a good audience showed up too…

2011-09-11 21:27:18
smithcdau: RT @AgileRenee: Seth Godin’s movement is to make movements. Eat more prunes! http://t.co/GZXtegi More on Tribes and #agile.

2011-09-11 21:16:41
smithcdau: Top 20 list of most popular programming languages for 2011: http://t.co/bslakLG (via @martinblore) #yam

2011-09-11 21:12:47
smithcdau: @tonyrockyhorror yes the closeness of that airport kind of amazed me…

2011-09-11 14:04:31
smithcdau: F1 Monza: Vettel wins (again), Webber makes a mess passing Massa & crashes out…

2011-09-10 03:09:02
smithcdau: Hanging out at Barcamp Gold Coast (@ Bond University) http://t.co/gxVuW4X

2011-09-09 13:44:38
smithcdau: Do you have cola on your head… is that code? (Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson S07E225) http://t.co/SA7XHve

2011-09-09 10:26:24
smithcdau: @AgileRenee cool

2011-09-07 09:45:13
smithcdau: @jonathanrcolema Hey did I get in there? Haven’t seen it…

2011-09-03 12:50:30
smithcdau: I was just awarded the “Movie Enthusiast” badge at http://t.co/OaSrMRW

2011-09-03 12:50:29
smithcdau: You’re nobody ’till somebody shoots you. (watching The Lincoln Lawyer) http://t.co/ObAPJ0o

2011-09-02 12:14:29
smithcdau: Wheels down BNE (@ Domestic Terminal w/ 3 others) http://t.co/oeSyTSs

2011-09-02 10:13:39
smithcdau: Great couple of days at #STANZ but happy to be going home (@ T1 (Domestic – Qantas & Jetstar) Terminal w/ 13 others) http://t.co/pdZhYCh

2011-09-02 04:32:03
smithcdau: LOL RT @hogfish: If you feed your team too many carrots, they will not perform better. Also they will turn orange. #STANZ #yam

2011-09-02 04:22:39
smithcdau: Facebook technical puzzles used in recruitment http://t.co/w3cxgzW shared at #STANZ (via @adrianlsmith) #yam

2011-09-02 04:21:14
smithcdau: My #STANZ presentation with @adrianlsmith & Dallas Thorneycroft ”The Future Tester At Suncorp..” is now available: http://t.co/grJL2vq #yam

2011-09-02 01:36:49
smithcdau: Next up at #STANZ, @adrianlsmith & I with Dallas Thorneycroft will present “The Future Tester At Suncorp – A Journey of Building Quality In”

2011-09-02 00:59:15
smithcdau: RT @hogfish: Mmm steak holders… @jjcannegieter #STANZ #TMMi #yam

2011-09-02 00:58:57
smithcdau: RT @adrianlsmith: #STANZ @jjcannegieter Stakeholders are the most important people at a BBQ – nice definition #yam

2011-09-02 00:49:07
smithcdau: RT @adrianlsmith: #STANZ @jjcannegieter TMMI industry stats show orgs are better at test execution than planning. Symptom of poor comms #yam

2011-09-01 03:30:46
smithcdau: Listening to @charrett discuss methods for invigorating teams using exploratory testing #STANZ

2011-09-01 03:26:06
smithcdau: Working effectively with a distributed team depends on trust. Be sure to focus on creating and maintaining trust @karennjohnson #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 02:28:20
smithcdau: Politics is not a soft skill anything that can change your life or make you hate your job is not soft! (via @SMRobson) #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 00:05:40
smithcdau: Testing is like journalism – need to do crazy things to get the story, people need the news today & not tomorrow #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 00:02:36
smithcdau: Testing can be up to a decade behind the cutting edge of development. We need to try and get up to date quicker (via @SMRobson) #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 00:01:02
smithcdau: Ask team if they are happy to have their names on the splash screen. Good way of assessing quality and value (via @adrianlsmith) #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 00:00:00
smithcdau: Work as if your favourite person in testing was coming to visit (Jonathon Kohl) #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 23:59:07
smithcdau: Testers need to communicate their work in a language others understand – how much did we save? (Goranka Bjedov) #STANZ #yam

2011-09-01 23:41:34
smithcdau: RT @hogfish: “Bad software makes more money” – Facebook’s Goranka Bjedov ruffles some feathers at #STANZ

2011-09-01 23:33:20
smithcdau: #STANZ gorankabjedov we live in a world where quality does not matter any more, we are used to things not working (via @SMRobson) #yam

2011-09-01 23:32:23
smithcdau: #STANZ gorankabjedov we need to find the right bugs as quickly as possible. It’s not about the number if tests. (via @SMRobson) #yam

2011-09-01 23:14:38
smithcdau: Day 2 of #STANZ, first up Goranka Bjedov from Facebook (@ The Sebel Albert Park Melbourne) http://t.co/li3Lgjp

2011-09-01 13:52:50
smithcdau: @kennethvr nice post, thanks for watching!

2011-09-01 13:49:22
smithcdau: Qantas gave cancelled our flight for tomorrow, it’s times like these I wish I had Qantas Club membership…

2011-09-01 10:39:59
smithcdau: RT @SMRobson: #STANZ as testers be “sticky beaks” of the future

2011-09-01 10:30:47
smithcdau: RT @SMRobson: #STANZ after dinner speaker – T shaped skills: the vertical are your intrinsic skills, the horizontal is your social skills

2011-09-01 10:27:24
smithcdau: RT @SMRobson: #STANZ after dinner speaker makes as all laugh while making us think global

2011-09-01 04:40:09
smithcdau: Great session by Jonathon Kohl on testing mobile devices #STANZ #yam