 Test-Driven Management
Senior managers frequently fail to communicate their organizational intentions and business objectives to XP teams. This means
that while Release Planning helps elucidate what features are needed for a given project, it falls short when it comes to
explaining why. As a result, an XP team can create finely crafted, fully tested software that fails to meet unspoken organizational
or financial objectives. Test-driven management addresses this problem by means of Management Tests. Managers on XP projects
use test-driven management to clearly articulate and assess organizational intentions and business objectives for their projects
and teams.
(see Joshua Kerievsky's SD Magazine cover story, Right Game, Wrong Team, http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7839/sdm0303a/sdm0303a.htm)
Flavor: creation
1 to 2 days
After quickly educating your senior managers, development managers and team leaders in the test-driven management practice,
we will help them craft internal and external management tests for your project.
ID: 27A |
Flavor: simulation
1 to 2 hours
Participants will practice test-driven management
on a fictional project. At various points during the simulation,
there will be a chance to measure how the project is doing with respect
to its internal and external management tests. We conclude with a debrief
of the simulation.
ID: 27B |
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