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The Whole Team Approach in Practice

April 26, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, continuous integration, exploratory testing, feedback, learning for testers, pairing, planning, shortened feedback loop, software quality, test automation, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 7 Comments

I’ve just been struggling with a title for this post. Some of my ideas were: “Visibility Taken to New Heights”, “Yes, There Are Teams Who Do This Just Like In the Books”, “A Real Commitment to Continual Improvement”, “Inspiration”, but none of them really capture my amazement at what I saw visiting the team at […]

Using Mind Maps for Test Planning

February 28, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, communicating, estimating meetings, exploratory testing, Functional test tools, mind maps, planning, remote team members, software quality / 12 Comments

Recently I wrote a post about how our team used a mind map to help us with theme planning. We also sometimes use mind maps to help us in planning our testing. Some people asked if I’d post an example. Here it is: We’re a financial services company, and this theme was a rewrite of […]

Estimation Roller Coaster

February 1, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, estimating meetings, exploratory testing, planning, remote team members / 2 Comments

I report on my team’s experiences with sizing and estimating themes and stories in an article just published on StickyMinds, Estimation Roller Coaster. I’ve had some good feedback already via Twitter. Please let me know what you think!

Exploring to Get Specifications & Story Tests

January 24, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, exploratory testing, software quality / 3 Comments

Today was day 2 of a new sprint. We’re working on a big, complex theme. Up to now, our system allowed only one employer or “plan sponsor” account for every 401(k) retirement plan. Many companies want several plan sponsor accounts: one for their accountant who submits the payroll contributions, one for the human resources manager […]

The Whole Team Approach in Practice

Using Mind Maps for Test Planning

Estimation Roller Coaster

Exploring to Get Specifications & Story Tests

Some takeaways from the Software Teaming 2024 conference

Celebrating 10 years of friendship, courage, and joy

A look back at release engineering

What DevOps culture means to me – and how you can help it grow

More learnings from Agile Testing Days 2023 – part 3

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