BDD in Banking

Published: May 25, 2017, 9:25 a.m.

b'CukenFest London is coming to town over June 21st-25th. Three events for the Cucumber, BDD, and Agile communities. Learn more about the events on our website - http://cukenfest.cucumber.io/\\n\\nThis month on the Cucumber podcast, Matt Wynne speaks to Simon Powers the founder of Adventures with Agile about Behaviour-Driven Development in banking. \\n\\nSimon was approached by the global investment bank BNP Paribas to review several product teams and to find out why the teams could not complete stories at the end of each sprint and why there was so many defects coming into the sprint. \\n\\nIn just 9 months, the defect rate decreased from 34% to 4% and they avoided a very costly rewrite. Listen to this podcast to hear how they did it and the lessons learned along the way.\\n\\nRead the short case study on the [Adventures with Agile website](https://www.adventureswithagile.com/2015/08/27/a-case-study-for-bdd-in-improving-throughput-and-collaboration/)\\n\\nCucumber and Adventures with Agile are teaming up to run BDD Kickstart, London. A two-day public training course for people who want to learn fundamentals of BDD and Cucumber. Aslak Hellesoy - the creator of Cucumber and author of The Cucumber Book - will teach this course. [Learn more][https://cucumber.io/events/bdd-kickstart-london)'