remote team members Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Quick risk strategizing

March 20, 2022 / Lisa Crispin / brainstorming, collaborating, Distributed Teams, experiments, quick risk strategizing, remote team members, risk storming, test strategy, Uncategorized / 4 Comments

People often ask me about good ways to devise a test strategy for a new epic or feature. Like many practitioners, I find a risk-based approach works well. I’m a big fan of Beren Van Daele’s risk storming with TestSphere cards. I had the good fortune during 2020 to participate in risk storming sessions facilitated […]

Starting a new job in the pandemic

July 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / Distributed Teams, hiring, onboarding, remote team members / 4 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”.