An Agile Approach Thats Flexable & Realistic

By Author: charlesdegens
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While we were sitting around the breakfast table this morning, my wife asked me what I had to do today. I replied that I needed to write an article on Agile Testing. Overhearing this conversation, one of my daughters quipped: Agile testing??? You mean as opposed to clumsy testing? I laughed it off and we continued on talking about other things.

As I think about it though, I realize that her comical comment is, in fact, accurate. The way I have to test on a traditional project is rather clumsy and inefficient compared to the way I test on an agile project. Piles of paperwork, hours logging issues in a tool, and slow turn-around time, just can't compete with minimal paperwork, face to face collaboration, and fast turn-around times. I admit it. I am an agile proponent. I favor an environment where the management team, the development team and all of the stakeholders are on board with agile development. I have found that the team can produce systems not only faster, but of higher quality, when the team I am working with uses mature agile methods.

But I am also a realist. Often I am faced with an ...
... environment where corporate policies and procedures prohibit the team from using agile methods by the book. I could choose to not work on those projects until the organization is fully agile compliant, but I find that there is value in helping software development teams drive an agile peg in a CMMI hole.

If any of you have been there and done that, and have a few particularly useful and innovative tips to share, I'd love to hear from you.

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