Winning big with Specification by Example

Lessons learned from 50 successful projects
by Gojko Adzic

Dates: 22 September 2011, a day before the main AGILEEE program
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Instructor: Gojko Adzic

About the Class

Learn how successful teams all over the world collaborate on specifications and tests in Agile/Lean environments to produce software genuinely fit for purpose and be inspired to improve your software development processes.

This seminar presents the collective knowledge of about fifty projects, ranging from high-traffic web sites to internal back-office systems, implemented by teams as diverse as small startups to groups spread across different continents, working in a range of processes including Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban and similar processes often bundled together under the names Agile and Lean.

In this seminar, Gojko Adzic presents the results of the research conducted for his upcoming book: Specification by Example.

Specification by Example is a set of emerging practices in software development that affects how teams approach specifications, development and testing. It is the corner-stone of agile requirements and testing and delivering high quality software with short iterations or in flow based systems.

Learning Outcomes

You will learn:

1. key benefits that the teams from the research are getting from agile acceptance testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development
2. key principles underlying successful process implementations: deriving scope from goals, specifying collaboratively, illustrating using examples, refining specifications, automating validation without changing specifications, validating frequently and evolving a living documentation system
3. key practices to support the principles, and how teams from the research use them in different contexts, from investment banking to web development, from small collocated teams to distributed groups of teams
4. how specification by example fits into Kanban/Scrum
5. getting started – key steps to take and key things to watch out for.

Target Audience

If you are a Product Owners, a Business analysts, a QA and testing engineers this class is for you to be able to leverage these practices in their daily work.

We highly welcome ScrumMaster, Agile coaches and Trainers who would like to introduce their teams and customers to new techniques of specifications by example.

And anyone else who is interested in learning new trends in requirement management science.

About the Instructor

Gojko Adzic is a consultant based in the UK who helps ambitious teams worldwide implement specification by example and agile testing practices.

He is the author of the books: Specification by Example, Bridging the Communication Gap and Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse

Class Testimonials

What previous participants say about this seminar:

“Great value achieved, specifications with examples and executable specifications will become an important addition to our agile processes. I have already managed to inspire our Test Manager and key team member of our teams” – Martin Fredriksson, Technical Architect,
Centiro Solutions AB

“Intense, fact paced, social: Must see!” – Daniel Dani, Developer at ICA AB

“It is a good intro to the topic and it is well worth attending. It gives a lot of ‘aha’ thoughts” – Stefan Schwartz, Software Configuration Manager, ICA AB

“A great way of defining requirements the everyone can understand and that are possible to use as test cases” – Johan Gundemark, Test Lead at Avega Group

“I will definitely recommend this training” – Hames Khaliqhi, Test Lead at Connecta

The rates for the class

Includes:

• one day class attendance for one person
• meal

Does not include:

• main conference program (September 23-24)

If you are a conference attendee

• your rate is 450 euro;

If you are not a conference attendee:

• your rate is 500 euro;
• register for the conference and get the reduced rate for the class.

For group of 3 people and more

• we offer 5% discount;

Register for the class>>>

1 EUR = 11,6 UAH

For any questions and comments please email at info@agileee.org