inclusiveness

DeliveryConf 2020

February 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, continuous delivery, continuous integration, DevOps, DevTestOps, diversity, inclusiveness, learning for testers, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

I attended DeliveryConf 2020 in Seattle in January. I had high expectations, given the speaker lineup. It far exceeded my expectations! I took lots of sketch notes and plan to blog more about the many insights I learned. Meanwhile, you can see the presentations, AND listen to the valuable facilitated group discussions with members of […]

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 […]

A group of friends at the hotel bar, might look like a clique to newbies

Inclusive Conferences

November 19, 2017 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, inclusion, inclusiveness, Uncategorized / 8 Comments

I went to my first testing conference back in the early 90s. I learned a lot, but I was too intimidated to try to “network” with anyone. The speakers seemed standoffish, the feeling I got was “You’re a nobody, so don’t try to talk to us.” Maybe that was an unfair interpretation on my part, […]

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