Category: Tips & Tricks

In the first of a two-part series ‘Stop doing upfront…’ Kirsten focusses on the waste of doing huge amounts of upfront design and how we seek to maximise our design effort within a user story and a sprint. Continue reading →

It makes sense to follow Lean principles and deliver minimum viable product (MVP) but be prepared to hit some resistance. Kirsten talks about some convincing arguments to back up the approach and how it’s important to be considered as valuable for the expertise and knowledge you bring to the project as for the development and design skills you posses. Continue reading →

Kirsten discusses how we deal with bugs, urgent client requests and issues that could easily distract the sprint team during lock down Continue reading →

This month Kirsten organised our ‘Last Thursdays’ talks at the Green Room and we ran a tech heavy event covering Test Driven Development and full-stack Behaviour Driven Development. Here’s a summary and the videos. Continue reading →

We’re using our 5-6pm personal development time to run a mini project, sending our coffee consumption stats to our website. To achieve this we’ll be playing with some nice new things. Continue reading →

Rob Squires introduces how we have adopted a ‘Full stack’ behaviour driven development (BDD) workflow with phpspec and behat, how it has improved the productivity of the whole team and helped us successfully deliver our latest project havells-sylvania.com. Continue reading →

Pete walks through the initial steps we took to build a multi-lingual bundle for our CMS Continue reading →

After a week of tweeting about the tools we use for facilitating our Agile process, Kirsten has summed it all up in one post. Continue reading →