SPaMCAST 417- Six Elements of Business Stories, QA Corner, Herbie and Tame Flow

Published: Oct. 31, 2016, 2:37 a.m.

b'The Software Process and Measurement Cast 417 discusses the six elements of business stories. \\xa0These six elements are required for effective business stories. \\xa0We also tackle whether each of those elements are equally important in telling the different types of stories spun in a business environment. Steve Tendon joins the SPaMCAST this week to discuss Chapter 12 in Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban, published by J Ross (). \\xa0\\xa0We discussed the Herbie and Kanban. The story of Herbie provides a great metaphor for the flow of work through an organization and how it can be improved. Visit Steve at . We cap this edition of the Software Process and Measurement Cast with a visit to the QA Corner with Jeremy Berriault. Jeremy and I discussed the Samsung Note 7 and testing. While we may not have to test lithium-ion batteries professionally, we can extract lessons from this scenario on risk and testing! Connect with Jeremy on . Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). \\xa0\\xa0As we move through the first part of the book we are being exposed to Lencioni\\u2019s model of team dysfunctions (we get through most of it this week) and a set of crises to illustrate the common problems that make teams into dysfunctional collections of individuals. Today we re-read the three sections titled Deep Tissue, Attack and Exhibition. \\xa0 Visit the to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 418 will feature our interview with Larry Cooper. \\xa0Larry and I talked about his project The Agility Series. \\xa0The series is providing the community an understanding of how Agile is applied and how practitioners are interpreting practices and principles. \\xa0 Shameless Ad for my book! co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: \\u201cThis book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.\\u201d Support SPaMCAST by buying the book nglish and Chinese.'