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Escaping the Oubliette (Part 3) – Bug Blitz
Every product team I’ve ever worked in had a bug blitz at some point and often one every year or two. There’s no arguing that a decent bug blitz is a powerful way of getting the numbers down and clearing … Continue reading
Posted in Planning & Estimation, Project Management, Simple Tools, Technical
Tagged bug, defect, oubliette, technical debt
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Patterns For Collective Code Ownership
Following the somewhat schizophrenic challenges of dealing with person issues on collective code ownership, here we focus on the practices and practical aspects. How do we technically achieve collective ownership within teams? We’re using the “simple pattern” approach again. For each … Continue reading
Posted in People, Simple Patterns, Technical
Tagged bug, collaborate, collective ownership, defect, ego, feature, pairing, pattern, peer review, tdd, technical debt, test, training
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Escaping the Oubliette (Part 2) – Tailing
Following my previous articles on topping and debt prevention, we’ll now focus on the easier parts. How to clear old defects and debt. we’ll cover 4 simple strategies; 2 for defects and 2 for debt. (there are paired similarities across these). For defects, we’ll focus … Continue reading
Posted in Planning & Estimation, Simple Tools, Technical
Tagged bug, defect, Litter Patrol, oubliette, pattern, ratchet, technical debt, Topping and Tailing
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Escaping the Oubliette (Part 1) – Topping
As promised, how to Escape The Oubliette… So here you are, part of a team at the bottom of the defect & debt pit. What now? The simple fact is, there’s no one answer but there are a selection of tools … Continue reading
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Tagged bug, defect, elephant, Jim Highsmith, oubliette, pattern, Stop The Bleeding, technical debt, Topping and Tailing
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Stop The Bleeding
One of my favourite verbal patterns is “Stop The Bleeding”. I heard the term come back to me in a management meeting last week in the right context and with the right response – Success! I’m not exactly sure where … Continue reading