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Articles

The Three Amigos — All For One - One For All
Better Software, November/December 2011, Volume 13, Issue 6, pp. 24-27
TechWell
Feel The Burn, Getting the Most out of Burn Charts
Better Software, July/August 2009, Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 26-31
Common Areas at the Heart
paper in the Agile 2007 Conference Proceedings
Overcoming Resistance
AYE Conference website, April 2007
An 8031 in-circuit emulator (PDF) & (source code)
Byte Magazine, July 1986
Yes, I really did start out in hardware design and embedded systems development. This article describes an early technique I used to decrease cycle time for more frequent and useful feedback. (The header comments in the source are WAY out of date!)

Interviews

Who is George Dinwiddie
by Yves Hanoulle, November 15, 2011.
Measure Progress in a Way That's Visible and Reliable
in 5 Minutes to Process Improvement Success by Bill Fox, October 2011.
What skills are needed for Agile testing?
by Yvette Francino, June 2011.
How are Agile testing and traditional testing different?
by Yvette Francino, June 2011.
From One Expert to Another: George Dinwiddie
by Don Gray, TechWell, May 2011.
excerpts published in Better Software, May/June 2011.

Handouts

User Stories
A handout to go with a workshop on User Stories. Touches on what is a user story, how to use it, and how to split a large one into smaller ones.

Presentations

Agile Testing Workshop at ADP/West, June 6-7, 2011
Overview of Agile Testing
Baby Steps and Pervasive Feedback
slides & notes from ADP/East November 17, 2010
Refactoring C#
slides from DC ALT.NET meeting, April 29, 2009
Sustainable Career
slides from XPDay Manhattan 2007