Building Behavior Driven Teams

Many teams in their development process tend to focus on answering the question “how” instead of “why”. This leads to many misunderstandings which in turn decrease productivity and pleasure of working.

In my presentation I waned to introduce Behavior Driven Development which is one of the ways to improve communication within a team. I will share my knowledge on how to start with BDD in your company and say a couple of words about things like StoryBDD, SpecBDD and living documentation. Taking my team as a use case I will also speak about how BDD helped us in understanding each other and making software that matters.

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1. BUILDING
   Behavior Driven Teams
   

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2. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   COMMON
   Team Problems
   

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3. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   Communication
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/65339210@N02/6231641551
   

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4. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   The Wall
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/83443628@N00/424729966
   

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5. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   Rambo
   DeveloperS
   

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6. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   Outdated
   DOCS
   

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7. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   TAIL Chasing
   

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8. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   BOOMERANGS
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/protoflux/2287499188/
   

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9. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
   WHAT IS BDD
   and what’s in it for me
   

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10. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    BDD
    Story BDD Spec BDD
    Communication between stakeholders Communication between classes
    Internal Quality
    External Quality
    

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11. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    backlog
    FEATURES
    SCENARIOS
    Red
    Green
    REFACTOR
    

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12. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    backlog SCENARIOS
    Red
    Green
    REFACTOR
    FEATURES
    Spec BDD
    STORY BDD
    

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13. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    LIVING
    Documentation
    

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14. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    scenario
    Workshops
    Feature: buying subscription
    In order to use more minutes then on free subscription
    As a customer
    I need to be able to buy a subscription
    Scenario: Successfully getting charged for subscription
    Given I am a registered user
    When I buy a subscription
    Then I should be charged
    

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15. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Refine
    EXAMPLES
    Given I am a registered user
    When I buy a subscription
    Then I should be charged
    Given user “john@doe.com” exists
    And “gold” subscription for “23.99” exists
    When user “john@doe.com” buys “gold” subscription
    Then user “john@doe.com” should be charged for “23.99”
    

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16. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Continuous
    Integration
    

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17. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    SPECIFICATIONS
    ARE NOT SCRIPTS
    Given user “John Doe” is registered
    When I log in as “John Doe”
    And I go to the contacts page
    And I remove contact “Jane Doe”
    Then I should have “0” contacts
    And I should see “contact removed”
    

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18. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    INTRODUCING
    BDD in your company
    

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19. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    business and
    Development
    

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20. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    When you
    have a
    hammer ...
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/m2w2/191545978/
    

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21. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Impact
    Mapping
    

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22. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Scenario
    workshops
    

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23. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Avoid buzz
    words
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mightyboybrian/127340990/
    

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24. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    The Batman
    

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25. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    MVP IS THE KEY
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623/
    

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26. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    DOn’t attack
    every angle
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/64472342@N05/11755284815/
    

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27. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Measure
    business
    values not
    developers
    http://www.dogshaming.com/2013/12/fences-aint-got-nothing-on-houndini/
    

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28. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    USE CASE
    The Comet Cult
    

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29. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    SMALL
    that’s what she said
    TEAM
    

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30. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    4 different
    locations
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevan/38944425/
    

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31. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Communication
    Breakdown
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexanderino/241125926/
    

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32. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Us and them
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimbaker/70758260/
    

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33. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    The
    Guesstimates
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhwrdh/4613168626/
    

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34. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Rock Solid
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhsnap_me/11701204035/
    

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35. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Issue
    reincarnation
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/somedragon2000/527470010/
    

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36. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    What to
    test?
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenniferkwarren/4353806680/
    

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37. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    ACHIEVEMENT
    UNLOCKED
    What we gained
    

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38. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Bronze badge
    of
    understanding
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/medevac71/4063173395/
    

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39. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    silver medal
    for agile
    introduction
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/theundersigned/2829693523/
    

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40. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Ancient
    SCROLL of
    Domain
    Knowledge
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sifu_renka/4582745849/
    

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41. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Scrum to
    kanban
    replacement
    spell
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcasadei/6280907548/
    

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42. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Sacred RING
    of QUALITY
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/6306833061/
    

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43. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Golden key
    of trust
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuw_son/286973597/
    

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44. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    CONFR
    done in 4
    months
    

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45. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    And a VADER
    MUG
    

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46. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Good Reads
    

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47. BUILDING BEHAVIOR DRIVEN TEAMS
    Karol Sójko
    Space Shuttle Architect @ The Comet Cult
    PHP3City & PHPers Organizer
    #PHP #Symfony #BDD #TDD #Agile #Team
    !
    email: karolsojko@gmail.com
    twitter: @karolsojko
    github: karolsojko
    !
    Need training?
    http://thecometcult.com/workshops
    

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