remote team members Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Starting a new job in the pandemic

July 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / Distributed Teams, hiring, onboarding, remote team members / 2 Comments

Lena Pejgan invited me to join her in her pair blogging series (see her first post for some background). We quickly decided to write about starting a new job in the pandemic – which we both did! Lena is a manager, so she has perspective for hiring new people during these strange new times. I’m […]

The Need for Feedback

November 24, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / Distributed Teams, inclusion, mabl, remote team members / 21 Comments

It’s been a big year of change for me. My husband and I moved our three donkeys, three cats and two dogs 1900 miles, from Colorado to Vermont. I started a new job as testing advocate for mabl at the beginning of August, and executed our long-planned move three weeks later. We love our new […]

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 […]

What I Learned Pairing on a Workshop

April 21, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, agile testing training, collaborating, Distributed Teams, learning for testers, pairing, Publications, remote team members / 1 Comment

I pair on all my conference sessions. It’s more fun, participants get a better learning opportunity, and if my pairs are less experienced at presenting, they get to practice their skills. Big bonus: I learn a lot too! I’ve paired with quite a few awesome people. Janet Gregory and I have, of course, been pairing […]

Making Tele-Teams Work

June 2, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / remote team members, writing / No Comments

My teammate Nanda Lankalapalli lives in India. We combined our experiences working as and with remote team members in an article, “Making Tele-Teams Work“. I’m extremely proud that it’s the cover article for the May/June issue of Better Software! Please share your experiences working on “tele-teams”.

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 […]