Hi, I’m Ralf and I help quality conscious software teams to deliver more reliably, make better predictions, and to progress at a more sustainable pace.

Ralf Westphal

Hamburg Style TDD - Bank Kata

There are already a few different styles of TDD out there. Still, though, my feeling is something is missing in the realm of test-first or test-driven development. I tried to explain that in my posting introducing the „Hamburg style TDD“. And then I showed what…

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Ralf Westphal

Co-creation at work

Last night I experienced live within 15 minutes an example of co-creation. What an unexpected treat from David who was the presenter at the weekly Business Growth event at Coworking Bansko. David, who talked about visual communication, asked us at the end to apply what…

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Ralf Westphal

Hamburg Style TDD - Diamond Kata

In a previous article I tried to explain why I’m not satisfied with the existing schools of TDD: They are not really tapping the developers’ capability to think. At least for my taste. Or to say it more bluntly: They are dumbing down developers. Sure,…

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Ralf Westphal

Hamburg Style TDD

There are a number of „TDD styles“ (or even „schools of TDD“): And I cannot identify myself with any of them. Not 100% at least. Recently I attended a talk by Marco Emrich who showed the above styles next to each other - and I…

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