agile teams Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

What can testers and developers learn from each other?

September 10, 2019 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 6 Comments

At Agile 2019, Bill Wake and I paired on a workshop on the Culture and Collaboration track at Agile 2019, “What testers and developers can learn from each other”. I was thrilled to be co-facilitating this with Bill, who was one of my early Extreme Programming heroes. Doing a true workshop in a 75 minute […]

All-remote retrospective

April 12, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, communicating, continual improvement, inclusiveness, remote team members, Retrospectives / No Comments

In February I wrote about the experimental retrospective format for our team’s “cross-pod retro” (so-called, because our large team is divided into smaller pods). Since then, my manager Jo Webb and I have continued to tweak the retro format, based on feedback from surveys done following each retro. Building on feedback Our teammates said they […]

Telling stories together while practicing critical thinking with VTS

January 24, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, brainstorming, collaborating, continual improvement, experiments, fun, learning for testers, Uncategorized, visual thinking strategy, Whole Team Approach / 8 Comments

We use our story telling and critical thinking skills constantly as we test and develop software. How often do we practice those skills on something other than features we are going to release to production? Musicians practice their craft. Even coders can practice their craft with katas and code retreats. How can we practice telling […]

Tips for tester-developer pairing

September 8, 2017 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, learning for testers, pairing, Whole Team Approach, writing / 2 Comments

My article on pairing with developers is live on the Ministry of Testing. I love pairing with developers. It’s fun, and I learn so much. I feel we are really building quality in together, catching issues early, finding inconsistencies or questions to discuss with the product owner. Whether you’re a tester or a developer, I […]

Transferring Agile Testing Skills webinar

Transferring testing skills

February 17, 2017 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, agile testing training, Uncategorized, webinar / No Comments

Recently I did a short webinar with Agile Testing Days “AgileTD Mondays” series on “Transferring Testing Skills to the Whole Team. It’s about 20 minutes long, I hope it will inspire you to spread some testing love around your agile team! How do you help non-testers on the team learn testing skills? I’d love to […]

When the whole team owns testing: Building testing skills

September 7, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, agile testing training, experiments, exploratory testing, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 12 Comments

The Twitterverse and other social media continue to host many discussions on topics such as “Do testers need to code?” As Pete Walen points out in his recent post, the “whole team” approach to delivering software, popularized with agile development, is often misunderstood as “everyone must write production code”. The “Whole Team Approach” in practice […]