Just a few slides about how teams should act together to shorten feedback cycles. Presented in AgileJKL Meetup about Testing.

1. Converging the team
For devs and test specialists and all

2. Convergence
“the merging of distinct technologies, industries, or
devices into a unified whole” - Merriam Webster

3. Of Feedback
● You want fast feedback. Always.
● When you don’t get it, problems emerge

4. Context switching

5. Context switch + Feedback loop
● Longer feedback loop induces more context
switching
● More context switching induces more bugs
○ (and ALL OTHER NASTY THINGS)
● More bugs induce loss of time
● Loss of time induces loss of money
● Loss of money induces ...

6. Stuff to try
● Pair programming
● Work In Progress Limit (WIP)
● Shared responsibility (in content, quality)
● Experiments! (Roll your own)
...
● Mob programming + (Mob Testing)