A pitch presentation to sell the idea of using requirements as the smallest atom that drives all work but especially testing.

1. PRODUCT LIFECYCLE SUCCESS
FROM IDEA THRU INCEPTION TO EXECUTION
PRESENTATION BY: JONATHAN ROSS >> JONATHAN-ROSS@OUTLOOK.COM

2. WHERE DO OUR IDEAS COME FROM?
Ideas (especially for solutions) stem from two sources:
We arrive at solutions to daily experiences that feed
Our passion or our pain
PRESENTATION BY: JONATHAN ROSS >> JONATHAN-ROSS@OUTLOOK.COM

3. DEFINE “SUCCESS”
$ale$ = Happy
Customers
All our jobs feed this…
PRESENTATION BY: JONATHAN ROSS >> JONATHAN-ROSS@OUTLOOK.COM

4. THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA
The smallest atom of this evolutionary process is…
A REQUIREMENT

5. SOMETIMES …
Just ship it

6. TOOLS AND PROCESSES
• Do our tools communicate?
• Can we collaborate?
• Do we know what we need to do next?
• Shared information is EMpowering
Yes, it’s the Tower of
Babel.

7. HOW WE EVOLVE WITH OUR PRODUCT
• Eliminate obstacles to productivity.
• Make our process leaner, responsive and flexible.
• Enable collaboration.
• Let requirements drive us.
• Smaller iterations, greater transparency, increased risk
mitigation.
• Build a roadmap where the smallest requirement has a schedule
/ ETA.

8. GOOD EXECUTION?
• We want to evolve and iterate from this
• To this …

9. DOWN TO BUSINESS
• Choose a methodology that your team can buy into, suits your
product and work environment.
• Choose tools that can talk to each other.
• Create an environment that encourages collaboration,
imagination and the drive to execute.
K.I.S.S.

10. WORKFLOW
List all requirements with scheduled dates
Add User Stories / Use Cases
Create test cases
Task development by requirement
Push marketing strategy
Test (report, fix..)
Launch when baked
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11. VERIFICATION / TESTING / QA?
• Requirements drive test definition
• Test Case Management
• Holistic: manual, scripted and automated
• Bugs reported from test runs and from exploration
• Transparency, scalability, traceability and coverage
WE KNOW WHAT TO TEST, YOU KNOW WHAT WE TESTED.
PRESENTATION BY: JONATHAN ROSS >> JONATHAN-ROSS@OUTLOOK.COM

12. PRESENTATION BY: JONATHAN ROSS >> JONATHAN-ROSS@OUTLOOK.COM