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My Cucumber is better than your Fitnesse

We normally use Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) in our projects in order to minimize misunderstandings between developers and our customers which can help reduce overhead and technical debt. This blog post describes our experiences with the tool Fitnesse and suggests Cucumber as an alternative to improve communication and efficiency.

Sep 4, 2019 • 7 min read by Marc Potz

#agile #BDD

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Blame it!

In the basic retrospective formats like "What went well? What didn’t?", everyone has the option to state things about the last sprint. Things that worked out well - the plus side - just as things that didn’t work well - the negative side. Now there’s usually only a single rule for almost any retrospective format: Public blame is not allowed.

Jun 25, 2019 • 5 min read by Georg Schild

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Story splitting techniques

Agile Coach Mike Cohn says that “almost every Story can be split with one of five techniques”. He uses the acronym SPIDR for them.

Jun 21, 2019 • 2 min read by Sergej Sartison

#agile #UserStories

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User stories that can't be split

In iterative development, it’s always recommended to split work into small chunks. That way, it’s easier to understand and implement them. What should be done, however, when a User Story can’t be split, no matter how hard you try?

Jun 21, 2019 • 2 min read by Sergej Sartison

#agile #UserStories

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Creating your first EC2 instance

There are some steps needed in order to successfully create a virtual machine in an EC2 environment.

May 22, 2019 • 4 min read by Stefan Hofer

#Cloud

4 min

Uncertainty is good for you

When working with Scrum, we make estimates on a regular basis. This could be in separate appointments, combined with a refinement, or with the entire team in the Sprint Planning. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about these options – the team decides what suits them best.

May 22, 2019 • 4 min read by Georg Schild

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MacOS eject all disks with a keyboard shortcut or the touch bar

In this post, you will first learn how to get a global shortcut and touchbar item to eject all disks connected to your MacBook at once and then learn how to create it yourself.

Mar 6, 2019 • 2 min read by Simon Nagl

#macOS