Gunjan Doshi

I did a presentation today on Story Test Driven Development (SDD) with a small start-up in NYC. The company comprises of just four programmers, but they seem to be very enthusiastic. They are proud of what they do and seem to be looking for continuous ways to improve. I got the standard question on SDD [...]

There are some shareware goodies: word and excel templates available here. All the downloads are based on the works of Norm Kerth.
From the website: Norm is a software consultant and author of Project Retrospectives who suffered a disabling brain injury in an automobile accident. Norm cannot work and lives on a limited income of [...]

On this project, the customer team was spread too thin. They had tough time planning and writing story tests for the next iteration.
They experimented with the following. The customer team decided to meet immediately after the iteration planning meeting on the same day or the next day and plan for the next iteration. Since [...]

I presented a session on “roles and responsibilities in XP team” to my client in Canada. This coincides well with the white paper I am writing. I stressed on the idea of self-disciplined team, difference between principal and proxy customers, roles of customer, lead customer, programmer, coach and project manager. I went over-time speaking for [...]

I find information radiators invaluable on XP projects. We have information radiators for release plan, iteration plan, design debt, technical debt, retrospectives, risks etc. However they can easily get out of date. As usual, we do not want anything that slows us down.

I am writing an article covering the roles and resonsibilities on an XP team. I am focusing mainly on the activities that the coach and project manager perform.