The document discusses Agile Testing and provides details on how Yellow Pages Canada approaches Agile Testing. It explains that Agile Testing approaches need to be customized depending on factors like whether teams have product owners or business analysts, if developers and QA people believe in Agile principles, and the maturity level of teams. Yellow Pages Canada uses different Agile Testing approaches for different teams, including having one QA tester per two developers for more mature teams and one QA per four developers for less mature teams. The document emphasizes that while automated testing is useful, manual testing and exploratory testing are still important. It provides a link for more information on Yellow Pages Canada's Agile Testing approach.
Building QA Team that matters for an Agile WorldMaurizio Mancini
Presentation from Quest 2015 - Covers building a new QA Team that matters, how to approach Agile Testing, and how to present the message to renovate your existing QA team for Agile.
Presentation at Scrum Gathering in San Diego 2017 by Maurizio Mancini of http://www.exempio.com and Martin Lapointe of http://www.agileklix.com/. See how to reboot any Agile team that is struggling in just 5 sprints. Includes the M&M Transformation Canvas 2.0.
Scaling Quality by Building It In - Agile Tour Montreal 2017Maurizio Mancini
Presentation at Agile Tour Montreal 2017 by Maurizio Mancini of Exempio. This presentation is a "Ted Like talk" of the presentation done at Ottawa Agile Tour 2017. It provides a focus from the view of an Agile Coach and how to help large organizations to Scale quality by building in quality early in the software cycle.
Transforming Managers for an Agile Deployment - Agile Tour Montreal 2017Maurizio Mancini
Presentation at Agile Tour Montreal 2017 by Maurizio Mancini of Exempio. This presentation is an overview of what role software managers could play in an Agile world.
From Incremental & Iterative to Agile – What's the Right Process For Your Tea...Atlassian
Every software team has heard the phrase “going agile" and many consider themselves agile, but what does it mean to be truly agile? Implementing agile in a team takes commitment and is anything but “nimble and quick”. In fact, sometimes you need to become good at Incremental and Iterative Development (IID) before you can be Agile. In this talk, you will learn whether IID or Agile is right for your team, how to deploy and maintain a selected process, and how to make JIRA work for your development process.
Building QA Team that matters for an Agile WorldMaurizio Mancini
Presentation from Quest 2015 - Covers building a new QA Team that matters, how to approach Agile Testing, and how to present the message to renovate your existing QA team for Agile.
Presentation at Scrum Gathering in San Diego 2017 by Maurizio Mancini of http://www.exempio.com and Martin Lapointe of http://www.agileklix.com/. See how to reboot any Agile team that is struggling in just 5 sprints. Includes the M&M Transformation Canvas 2.0.
Scaling Quality by Building It In - Agile Tour Montreal 2017Maurizio Mancini
Presentation at Agile Tour Montreal 2017 by Maurizio Mancini of Exempio. This presentation is a "Ted Like talk" of the presentation done at Ottawa Agile Tour 2017. It provides a focus from the view of an Agile Coach and how to help large organizations to Scale quality by building in quality early in the software cycle.
Transforming Managers for an Agile Deployment - Agile Tour Montreal 2017Maurizio Mancini
Presentation at Agile Tour Montreal 2017 by Maurizio Mancini of Exempio. This presentation is an overview of what role software managers could play in an Agile world.
From Incremental & Iterative to Agile – What's the Right Process For Your Tea...Atlassian
Every software team has heard the phrase “going agile" and many consider themselves agile, but what does it mean to be truly agile? Implementing agile in a team takes commitment and is anything but “nimble and quick”. In fact, sometimes you need to become good at Incremental and Iterative Development (IID) before you can be Agile. In this talk, you will learn whether IID or Agile is right for your team, how to deploy and maintain a selected process, and how to make JIRA work for your development process.
Sharing My Inspect & Adapt Life at Computershare's ConneCTShe Women in Technology event. With its many stories of reflecting, pivoting, pushing and challenging myself and taking the next step in my personal and professional journey.
QA and test departments often are composed of employees with business backgrounds who have little training when it comes to software testing. Though they are engaged, these team members can get overwhelmed by the thousands of test cases they have to execute over and over, and they don’t see a future career path in testing. What can be done to address these challenges? Join Sophie Benjamin as she presents her personal step-by-step recipe to transform QA and test teams and position them for success within IT. She talks about the essential roles in QA and test teams, their skills and contributions within the software delivery cycle, and tips and tricks to keep employees motivated and willing to invest in their careers. Attendees will leave with practical advice on what leaders and managers can do to ensure that their QA and test teams deliver results and add value to their organizations, today and in the future.
It is often assumed that if you implement Agile/Scrum then quality will just take care of itself. As many organizations quickly discover, you cannot just “deploy Agile” and expect it to be the silver bullet for a software organizations quality issues. If you are questioning whether your Agile rollout is really helping you deliver higher quality software, faster, then this talk is a must to attend.
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Maurizio Mancini
Maurizio Mancini is a leader in the quality and process industries with a sixth sense for Agile, quality, and business process. He is best known for cutting through the noise and getting to the heart of any organizational problem whether that problem consists of choosing the right software development process, implementing modern quality approaches, or just finding the right balance between people, process and tools. Maurizio has been building teams for more than 20 years and is known for building highly effective and dedicated teams. Maurizio’s approach consists of empowering people and teams so that the team’s talent and creativity comes through naturally. This mindset favors the adoption of Agile values in any environment.
Agile software development has proven to be more successful than traditional methods. However there are many Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP). It is difficult to make a right choice.
Do you want to know the differences between Scrum and Lean? Perhaps you struggle with your existing Scrum implementation and looking for a better methodology. So did I. I spent many hours looking for continuous improvement beyond Retrospectives and Sprint Reviews. And I found my answer in applying Lean Principles.
This session will help you to increase your understanding of Lean and Scrum. It will also give you some practical examples of implementing Lean in Scrum teams.
Agile is simple to understand but difficult to implement, hard to master and mind-boggling when trying to scale!
This is because many organisations start implementing Agile in a cultural context that is mostly non-Agile.
This creates a significant number of tensions and frictions that the teams adopting Agile have to deal with although they are often not fully aware of them.
This presentation discusses why implement Agile and what is Agile, it also talks about how to scale from a single team to multiple teams and the impact on organisational culture.
Building Quality In in SAFe – The Testing Organization’s Perspective Yuval Yeret
SAFe emphasizes Building Quality In. We will take a deep dive into how this looks from a testing organization’s perspective and what does a SAFe implementation mean for Testing/QA professionals. We will map SAFe’s approach to best practices in the “”Agile Testing”” world. We will look at examples from the real world of how traditional testing organizations shift left and evolve towards continuous testing.
Learning Objectives and Key Takeaways:
Understand how best practices from the “”Agile Testing”” world map to SAFe’s context
Learn ideas and patterns for evolving Testing/QA’s role during a SAFe implementation
Understand how Test-Driven looks like and how techniques like Acceptance-Test-Driven-Design/Behavior-Driven
Development can empower testers as well as improve the flow on SAFe agile teams.
See how SAFe’s principles can be used to guide the evolution towards a lean/agile testing organization
7 Things Agile Leaders and Executives Do Differently - Agile Australia 2016 b...Dipesh Pala
One of the keys to a successful enterprise Agile transformation is the support of executive leadership, which is more than simply providing approval. The Agile executive enables, empowers and engages rather than controls.
According to one recent survey, more than one in three organisations claim that the lack of leadership engagement within their businesses is plaguing their journey towards sustainable organisational agility.
With a special focus on executives and leaders, this presentation will be draw upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences in multiple organisations across eight countries, and will share real-life case studies and insights to illustrate the key things that Agile leaders need to do differently.
Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish progress – and what does the opposite.
7 Things Agile Executives Do Differently - Dipesh PalaDipesh Pala
With a special focus on Executive teams, Dipesh Pala will be drawing upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences across multiple organizations, and share real-life case studies and insights to illustrate the following key things that Agile Executives and Leaders need to do differently:
1. Stop Starting, Start Finishing
2. Slow Down to Go Faster
3. One Team, One Dream
4. Foster Fully Capable Teams
5. Fail Early & Fail Small
6. Deliver Business Value, not just Projects
7. Servant Leadership
If you are an Executive or a Leader of an Agile team, this session will provide clear implications for where to focus your efforts in order to unleash the full potential of Agile methods to gain a competitive edge. You will be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyze and nourish progress – and what does the opposite.
Dev up 2016 Demystifying the scaled agile frameworkAngela Dugan
Just when companies seems to be warming up to agile, here comes SCALED agile. But how is SAFe really different than agile? Does using the SAFe framework undermine the scrum teams? Isn’t SAFe just a glorified version of waterfall that companies adopt when they can’t handle “real” agile? I decided the best solution was to go through the training and spend some time practicing it in the field. What I found was that SAFe leverages the best of Lean, Kanban, and scrum. SAFe is intended for large, enterprise customers delivering extremely complex and interdependent systems, but that doesn’t mean it offers nothing to smaller teams. Since becoming a Safe program consultant, I have coached a number of my smaller customers on improving their software development and delivery processes leveraging techniques from SAFe. In this interactive session, I plan to quickly walk through the tenets of SAFe, share some of my learnings with you, and help you to understand when and how SAFe can benefit your team!
We’re Moving to Agile: What Are Our Testers Going to Do?TechWell
As more and more organizations transition to agile, many still do not understand how testing fits into agile teams. Does it simply mean placing a tester on every team? Or does it mean doing away with the role of testers? Pradeepa Narayanaswamy explains the importance of working in cross-functional teams that integrate development and testing. Pradeepa shares her insights into the keys of agile testing including understanding the agile testing mindset and goals. She discusses the responsibilities of a tester in an agile team and describes the diverse skill sets required in those teams. Pradeepa also shares her ideas on how to manage defects, what to measure, and what to document. She concludes by describing what is NOT agile testing and debunks certain agile testing myths. Review these important basics and align your testing with concepts that may have been overlooked, forgotten, or misunderstood in your teams.
Scaled Agile Framework in 10 minutes (CAS2015)Unai Roldán
Scaled Agile Framework in 10 minutes (SAFe 3.0)
- Scaled: SAFe is designed for large-scale software development ecosystems of 50-125 people who need to resolve inter-dependencies
- Agile: SAFe is based on 9 Lean-Agile principles
- Framework: SAFe is a collection of a proven efficacy tools, and you only have to use what you need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysQQx7pQzg
El objetivo de la Lightning Talk es dar una visión "light" pero completa de lo que propone Scaled Agile Framework 3.0 como marco de referencia para el escalado de Agile.
Scaled Agile Framework es uno de los marcos de referencia para escalado de Agile que mayor aceptación está teniendo a día de hoy, sobre todo cuando hablamos de grandes organizaciones. El marco SAFe parte de las capas de abstracción clásicas de una organización para estructurar un cambio de perspectiva y de cultura basándose en los 4 valores y 9 principios Lean-Agile, apoyándose además en las prácticas Scrum-XP de desarrollo de productos. En la charla descubriremos de manera rápida los roles, artefactos y ceremonias que plantea el marco para conseguir un cambio de paradigma sostenible en las organizaciones.
Unai Roldán
UST Global
Agile testing - Principles and best practicesDr Ganesh Iyer
Slide deck used for delivering one of the popular sessions at PUG Challenge Americas in Boston in 2015. It describes of the basic principles of agile testing and several best practices that we follow in our organization.
Agile Testing is nonsense, because Agile is about testing!Andrea Tomasini
Testing is an attitude which brings us to trust results based on the fact that we can validate them. Testing is an approach which allows us to think about how to verify we did the right thing even before starting. Testing is a practice which allows us to write effective tests that can be repeated indefinitely while systematically producing consistent results.
Agile is built around the idea of managing complex projects, recognizing the importance of emerging results and verifying in a very disciplined way the assumptions and hypothesis we make as often and as thoroughly as possible. This means testing everything we do, every day ... So if you are truly Agile, you are living testing in every second of your life!
Sharing My Inspect & Adapt Life at Computershare's ConneCTShe Women in Technology event. With its many stories of reflecting, pivoting, pushing and challenging myself and taking the next step in my personal and professional journey.
QA and test departments often are composed of employees with business backgrounds who have little training when it comes to software testing. Though they are engaged, these team members can get overwhelmed by the thousands of test cases they have to execute over and over, and they don’t see a future career path in testing. What can be done to address these challenges? Join Sophie Benjamin as she presents her personal step-by-step recipe to transform QA and test teams and position them for success within IT. She talks about the essential roles in QA and test teams, their skills and contributions within the software delivery cycle, and tips and tricks to keep employees motivated and willing to invest in their careers. Attendees will leave with practical advice on what leaders and managers can do to ensure that their QA and test teams deliver results and add value to their organizations, today and in the future.
It is often assumed that if you implement Agile/Scrum then quality will just take care of itself. As many organizations quickly discover, you cannot just “deploy Agile” and expect it to be the silver bullet for a software organizations quality issues. If you are questioning whether your Agile rollout is really helping you deliver higher quality software, faster, then this talk is a must to attend.
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Maurizio Mancini
Maurizio Mancini is a leader in the quality and process industries with a sixth sense for Agile, quality, and business process. He is best known for cutting through the noise and getting to the heart of any organizational problem whether that problem consists of choosing the right software development process, implementing modern quality approaches, or just finding the right balance between people, process and tools. Maurizio has been building teams for more than 20 years and is known for building highly effective and dedicated teams. Maurizio’s approach consists of empowering people and teams so that the team’s talent and creativity comes through naturally. This mindset favors the adoption of Agile values in any environment.
Agile software development has proven to be more successful than traditional methods. However there are many Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP). It is difficult to make a right choice.
Do you want to know the differences between Scrum and Lean? Perhaps you struggle with your existing Scrum implementation and looking for a better methodology. So did I. I spent many hours looking for continuous improvement beyond Retrospectives and Sprint Reviews. And I found my answer in applying Lean Principles.
This session will help you to increase your understanding of Lean and Scrum. It will also give you some practical examples of implementing Lean in Scrum teams.
Agile is simple to understand but difficult to implement, hard to master and mind-boggling when trying to scale!
This is because many organisations start implementing Agile in a cultural context that is mostly non-Agile.
This creates a significant number of tensions and frictions that the teams adopting Agile have to deal with although they are often not fully aware of them.
This presentation discusses why implement Agile and what is Agile, it also talks about how to scale from a single team to multiple teams and the impact on organisational culture.
Building Quality In in SAFe – The Testing Organization’s Perspective Yuval Yeret
SAFe emphasizes Building Quality In. We will take a deep dive into how this looks from a testing organization’s perspective and what does a SAFe implementation mean for Testing/QA professionals. We will map SAFe’s approach to best practices in the “”Agile Testing”” world. We will look at examples from the real world of how traditional testing organizations shift left and evolve towards continuous testing.
Learning Objectives and Key Takeaways:
Understand how best practices from the “”Agile Testing”” world map to SAFe’s context
Learn ideas and patterns for evolving Testing/QA’s role during a SAFe implementation
Understand how Test-Driven looks like and how techniques like Acceptance-Test-Driven-Design/Behavior-Driven
Development can empower testers as well as improve the flow on SAFe agile teams.
See how SAFe’s principles can be used to guide the evolution towards a lean/agile testing organization
7 Things Agile Leaders and Executives Do Differently - Agile Australia 2016 b...Dipesh Pala
One of the keys to a successful enterprise Agile transformation is the support of executive leadership, which is more than simply providing approval. The Agile executive enables, empowers and engages rather than controls.
According to one recent survey, more than one in three organisations claim that the lack of leadership engagement within their businesses is plaguing their journey towards sustainable organisational agility.
With a special focus on executives and leaders, this presentation will be draw upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences in multiple organisations across eight countries, and will share real-life case studies and insights to illustrate the key things that Agile leaders need to do differently.
Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish progress – and what does the opposite.
7 Things Agile Executives Do Differently - Dipesh PalaDipesh Pala
With a special focus on Executive teams, Dipesh Pala will be drawing upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences across multiple organizations, and share real-life case studies and insights to illustrate the following key things that Agile Executives and Leaders need to do differently:
1. Stop Starting, Start Finishing
2. Slow Down to Go Faster
3. One Team, One Dream
4. Foster Fully Capable Teams
5. Fail Early & Fail Small
6. Deliver Business Value, not just Projects
7. Servant Leadership
If you are an Executive or a Leader of an Agile team, this session will provide clear implications for where to focus your efforts in order to unleash the full potential of Agile methods to gain a competitive edge. You will be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyze and nourish progress – and what does the opposite.
Dev up 2016 Demystifying the scaled agile frameworkAngela Dugan
Just when companies seems to be warming up to agile, here comes SCALED agile. But how is SAFe really different than agile? Does using the SAFe framework undermine the scrum teams? Isn’t SAFe just a glorified version of waterfall that companies adopt when they can’t handle “real” agile? I decided the best solution was to go through the training and spend some time practicing it in the field. What I found was that SAFe leverages the best of Lean, Kanban, and scrum. SAFe is intended for large, enterprise customers delivering extremely complex and interdependent systems, but that doesn’t mean it offers nothing to smaller teams. Since becoming a Safe program consultant, I have coached a number of my smaller customers on improving their software development and delivery processes leveraging techniques from SAFe. In this interactive session, I plan to quickly walk through the tenets of SAFe, share some of my learnings with you, and help you to understand when and how SAFe can benefit your team!
We’re Moving to Agile: What Are Our Testers Going to Do?TechWell
As more and more organizations transition to agile, many still do not understand how testing fits into agile teams. Does it simply mean placing a tester on every team? Or does it mean doing away with the role of testers? Pradeepa Narayanaswamy explains the importance of working in cross-functional teams that integrate development and testing. Pradeepa shares her insights into the keys of agile testing including understanding the agile testing mindset and goals. She discusses the responsibilities of a tester in an agile team and describes the diverse skill sets required in those teams. Pradeepa also shares her ideas on how to manage defects, what to measure, and what to document. She concludes by describing what is NOT agile testing and debunks certain agile testing myths. Review these important basics and align your testing with concepts that may have been overlooked, forgotten, or misunderstood in your teams.
Scaled Agile Framework in 10 minutes (CAS2015)Unai Roldán
Scaled Agile Framework in 10 minutes (SAFe 3.0)
- Scaled: SAFe is designed for large-scale software development ecosystems of 50-125 people who need to resolve inter-dependencies
- Agile: SAFe is based on 9 Lean-Agile principles
- Framework: SAFe is a collection of a proven efficacy tools, and you only have to use what you need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysQQx7pQzg
El objetivo de la Lightning Talk es dar una visión "light" pero completa de lo que propone Scaled Agile Framework 3.0 como marco de referencia para el escalado de Agile.
Scaled Agile Framework es uno de los marcos de referencia para escalado de Agile que mayor aceptación está teniendo a día de hoy, sobre todo cuando hablamos de grandes organizaciones. El marco SAFe parte de las capas de abstracción clásicas de una organización para estructurar un cambio de perspectiva y de cultura basándose en los 4 valores y 9 principios Lean-Agile, apoyándose además en las prácticas Scrum-XP de desarrollo de productos. En la charla descubriremos de manera rápida los roles, artefactos y ceremonias que plantea el marco para conseguir un cambio de paradigma sostenible en las organizaciones.
Unai Roldán
UST Global
Agile testing - Principles and best practicesDr Ganesh Iyer
Slide deck used for delivering one of the popular sessions at PUG Challenge Americas in Boston in 2015. It describes of the basic principles of agile testing and several best practices that we follow in our organization.
Agile Testing is nonsense, because Agile is about testing!Andrea Tomasini
Testing is an attitude which brings us to trust results based on the fact that we can validate them. Testing is an approach which allows us to think about how to verify we did the right thing even before starting. Testing is a practice which allows us to write effective tests that can be repeated indefinitely while systematically producing consistent results.
Agile is built around the idea of managing complex projects, recognizing the importance of emerging results and verifying in a very disciplined way the assumptions and hypothesis we make as often and as thoroughly as possible. This means testing everything we do, every day ... So if you are truly Agile, you are living testing in every second of your life!
Delivered at the Philippine Software Engineering Conference on October 19, 2016 in Marriott Hotel Manila - the talk exposes the difference between traditional software testing and the shift to agile testing mindset.
I also presented several practices I have used with the teams I worked with and coached for the past 5 years to assist this shift.
Agile testing principles and practices - Anil KaradeIndicThreads
Traditional test processes are not adaptive to extensive changes in software. Agile process emphasizes on ability to adapt to changing business needs, customer collaboration, integrated teams and frequent delivery of business values. Agile is an umbrella term that describes a variety of methods including XP and Scrum.
The talk will discuss pitfalls of the traditional testing process. Traditional testing process happens very late in the SDLC Where as Agile process focuses on test-first approach. The talk will explain benefits of going agile. Principles and practices of agile process will be discussed and agile methodologies Scrum and Extreme Programming will be discussed in detail. Purpose of Scrum, its effectiveness, timings and managing the scrum will be discussed. Some of the practices for XP like Pair Programming, Test Driven Development will be discussed. The Talk will also cover the QA role in agile world. The talk will cover the implementation issues while shifting from traditional to agile process. Talk will also include an interactive game for illustration of concepts.
Agile Testing: The Role Of The Agile TesterDeclan Whelan
This presentation provides an overview of the role of testers on agile teams.
In essence, the differences between testers and developers should blur so that focus is the whole team completing stories and delivering value.
Testers can add more value on agile teams by contributing earlier and moving from defect detection to defect prevention.
Introduction to Agile software testing - The 5th seminar in public seminar series from KMS Technology which have been delivering from 2011 in every two months
Brighton CRO Meetup #1 - Oh Boy These AB tests Sure Look Like Bullshit to MeCraig Sullivan
An updated deck of a short talk (30m) given at the first Brighton CRO meetup. Contains useful AB testing tools as well as full speaker notes for most of the slides.
Testing at Startup Companies: What, When, Where, and HowJosiah Renaudin
Startups are becoming increasingly prolific—technology startups even more so. CEOs are recognizing the need for quality. Their users are their growth, and if they can't retain users, their growth slows or stops. So quality matters. How do you convince the rest of the company that test brings value? How do you convince developers and product owners that spending time on quality is important, particularly if they have never worked with testers before? Should startups even have testers? Alice Till-Carty shares her experience finding a role for testing and QA within the ever changing and fast growing landscape of a fashion startup. Join Alice to explore the major challenges and hurdles that testers can face in startups—how to improve relations with developers, how to introduce process (even when “process” is a dirty word in your company), how to become more involved with the development process, and ways to improve communication as teams start to grow quickly.
Why do so many organizations struggle to put in place mature Agile teams that can apply proper Agile principles and deliver awesome products? Some people will say, “Agile is hard” as an excuse to not do Agile or to become frAgile. Well we think we have developed the “Secret Sauce” to rebooting any Agile team that just doesn’t seem to be maturing and we want to share it with you!
If you are thinking of scaling Agile across a large organization, then this talk is a must to attend to help ensure your teams have the right foundation. Organizations wanting to scale Agile must have a solid foundation of mature Agile teams who embrace the Agile values and have the right Agile mindset.
Over the years, as we have done Agile transformations in different organizations, we have seen common patterns that keep repeating. The most common pattern we found in our experience is that teams are frAgile. Too many either pretend to be Agile or don’t even know Agile is not a methodology, so organizations question the value of using Agile. Very often the confusion and frustration that comes with thinking that a team is Agile when they are not Agile, brings people right back to their old habits of command and control. Creating successful mature Agile teams is not sorcery, you need to discover the secret sauce!
In this talk, we will reveal our secrets on how to create a successful Agile-Scrum team in 5 sprints. Attendees will learn how we applied our secret sauce as we experimented with more than 30 teams and we refined the know-how. This recipe has proven to be successful in different organizations and teams delivering different types of products. Our Creative-Destruction approach goes through a human change process we labeled The Intervention Plan. The 5 steps are:
Step 1: Run in the rain
Step 2: Thunderstruck
Step 3: Start the M&M pain machine
Step 4: Open-up and look at the sun
Step 5: Removing the training wheels
And by using these 5 steps, attendees will discover the 5th Agile value!
Lean and Agile Way of Working has become new norm in multiple industries. Many organizations move in to lean agile way of working without realizing “WHY” factor. This leads to chaos and builds frustration backlog! Next would be firefighting and hiring so called magicians(Agile Coaches) to do this Frustration Backlog Management.
The Business of Agile - Better Faster CheaperRyan Ripley
During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with our business partners. After a few minutes, he raised his hand and stopped me.
“I get all that. BUT how is all of this agile stuff any better, faster, or cheaper than what we do today?”
Leaders must answer the “better, faster, cheaper” question if they want their agile transformation and projects to move forward.
To prepare leaders for this critical question, we explore how “better, faster, cheaper” translates to an agile organization, the metrics a leader can use to track progress towards “better, faster, and cheaper”, and how leaders can demonstrate the benefits gained from their agile activities.
Good agile / Bad agile: Proving the value of Agile to a skeptical organizationAlan Albert
Is Agile worth it?
What value can being Agile bring to your organization?
Done right, Agile software development methodologies can help your organization deliver greater value to customers and other stakeholders more efficiently and with reduced risk.
Done wrong, Agile methodologies become an endlessly iterating feature factory, facing an ever-growing backlog.
In this interactive session, attendees discussed:
- How to identify what’s most valuable to build next
- How to ensure that the features you build are not just functional, but used and valued
- How to measure and effectively communicate the value that you create
Led by Alan Albert of MarketFit, this session at Agile Vancouver explored theory, examples, and exercises showing how to unlock the power of discovering, creating, and communicating value.
Gengyan Global Business Solutions Pvt LtdRina Sethia
Gengyan is a globally recognized corporate training provider in India. It provides six sigma, ISO training, Consulting and certification for professionals
A Holistic Approach to Testing in Continuous DeliveryApplitools
Lisa Crispin shares her experiences with striving to deploy smaller changes more frequently. Explore the useful experiments Lisa and her team used to overcome common challenges and move towards successful CD.
As companies evolve to adopt, integrate and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. This Session will give you guidelines on how to start an innovative business lean and fast by using design thinking, lean and agile approaches and how to build high-performing digital product teams. The session will finish with discussing Lean Agile meets Design Thinking to give a meaningful conclusion.
Digital Transformation, Testing and AutomationTEST Huddle
The Digital Transformation is real. It is having a profound effect on how business is done and the nature of the systems required to deliver productive customer experiences and consequent business benefits.
Key Takeaways:
- What is the Digital Transformation and how does it affect testing?
- Some key findings from a recent and an ancient survey
- How to achieve testing and automation success.
To view the webinar, visit - http://testhuddle.com/resource/digital-transformation-testing-and-automation/
How to Build in Quality from Day 1 using Lean QA and Agile TestingAtlassian
If you're struggling to implement QA methods that fit with agile's core principles, you're not alone. Join Giancarlo and Maurizio as they explain how their teams found a sweet spot at the intersection of agile and QA engineering. They'll share common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Plus, get tips and tricks on how to capture requirements and link JIRA to test repositories for complete traceability.
This talk was presented at the Regional Scrum Gathering in India on the 6th and 7th of September in Bengalore. The SA Agile index report provided an opportunity to share experiences, observations and research into the state of Agile in South Africa and share these with our Indian colleagues and friends
Over the last 7 years of being involved in Agile adoptions in South Africa, primarily, at large financial services organisations, I have observed trends that have made the adoption of Agile particularly challenging. These are as follows:
Lack of business engagement – most Agile adoptions are driven by IT and ignore business
Program execution – coordination of large programmes
Team delivery – delivery teams are provided with the necessary constraints, conditions and purpose
Lack of systems thinking – extending agility to all the supporting functions in the organisation
Lack of Change management – typically mandated from executives to deliver the promise of Agile, however, leaders underestimate the impact on people
The talk is aimed at individuals and organisations that are currently on or starting an Agile adoption by discussing each of these challenges identified and validated through the research as well as providing some options in addressing these challenges.
Over the last 7 years of being involved in Agile adoptions in South Africa, primarily, at large financial services organisations, I have observed trends that have made the adoption of Agile particularly challenging. These are as follows:
- Lack of business engagement – most Agile adoptions are driven by IT and ignore business
- Program execution – coordination of large programmes
- Team delivery – delivery teams are provided with the necessary constraints, conditions and purpose
- Lack of systems thinking – extending agility to all the supporting functions in the organisation
- Lack of Change management – typically mandated from executives to deliver the promise of Agile, however, leaders underestimate the impact on people
The talk at Regional Scrum Gathering India 2017 was aimed at individuals and organisations that are currently on or starting an Agile adoption by discussing each of these challenges identified and validated through the research as well as providing some options in addressing these challenges.
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14. Depending on your teams reality,
customize your
Agile Testing approach
15. What we do at YP…
We use different approaches depending on the team…..
16. But Manual Testing is still important…
Automated Tests are great but look around,
it is still humans using the software…
Exploratory Testing is essential!
MAURIZIO MANCINI • DIRECTOR OF QA/AGILE EVANGELIST • YELLOW PAGES CANADA • @QAANDPROCESSGUY
17. Agile Testing at Scale
MAURIZIO MANCINI • DIRECTOR OF QA/AGILE EVANGELIST • YELLOW PAGES CANADA • @QAANDPROCESSGUY
20. 1 QA for
2 DEV’s
More Mature Agile Team
Delivers Faster
1 QA for
4 DEV’s
Less Mature Agile Team
Delivers Slower
21. More info on Agile Testing at YP…
For more details on our approach to Agile Testing see the recent
Quest 2015 presentation at this URL:
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/LeGlKTUSbhOEBR
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