Steve Freeman

There are still a few places left for the London XpDay, an event designed by practitioners for practitioners.

We’re trying the half-Open Space format again, with a day of prepared sessions (some promising experience reports this year) leading to a day of ad-hoc sessions. This means we can have a conference that’s more responsive to the [...]

I’ve just upgraded WordPress in response to this security alert. I should have done it ages ago.

The alert says
Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is.
so it seemed like a good idea to bring the site down until I had time to deal with it.

I’ve been mostly off-line for a couple of months: no blogs (reading or writing), no twitter, no open source (sorry, users), very little chat. That’s because Nat and I have been finishing up the copy editing of our book. We’re very much looking forward to it being done.
With that out of the way, I [...]

There’s been some chatter on the interweb recently, from Ron Jeffries and Martin Fowler for example, on the risks of a team adopting
only the ceremonial parts of Agile, without also adopting the “hard” technical practices as well.

Luckily for people with access to London (UK), we have a track at this year’s QCon to address [...]

Just got home after two intense days of XpDay London 2008. There’ll be follow-up materials posted on our new wiki. This year, Keith Braithwaite tried out a largely open format which was really buzzing by the second day.

In the middle of today’s keynote I was suddenly struck by the range of our community. With only [...]

I’m speaking at JavaZone in Oslo, on September 17th. I was so impressed last year that I managed to get back in. The topic will be Listening to Test Smells, which Nat and I have been raising for a while.

I’ll only be there until mid-afternoon Wednesday, so get in touch early if you want to [...]

We’re very pleased to announce our keynote speakers for this year’s London XpDay.

Chris Ambler, European QA Director for games company Electronic Arts, tests some of the most complex software in the world

Daniel Jones and Marc Baker, Lean Enterprise Academy, are two of the most established Lean consultants in the world. Jones wrote, with James [...]

We’ve just sorted out the venue (after a couple of bumps along the way) for this year’s event. No details yet, but watch this space.

Joseph Pelrine and I are involved in (or is that “committed to”?) starting up a Narrative Inquiry project with the Agile Alliance under their Agile Narratives programme. This one will be done jointly with Cognitive Edge using the Cynefin approach, here’s their announcement.

I’ve started a Yahoo Group for people who are interested.

What is [...]

Thanks to Naresh Jain I’ll be presenting a tutorial/worshop on TDD with Mock Objects at Agile India this Sunday, 25th.
Presenting this far from home is still a thrill for me and, providing I can hold up against the jet lag, I’m very interested to see how our material will be received.