You might notice that my posts here aren’t necessarily about actually doing testing activities. For the past several years I’ve been one of only three testers on a team of 25 or more coders. Currently, I’m the only tester spread across several mini-teams that add up to around 17 coders. I can’t possibly test every […]
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Retrospectives for large teams with many sub-teams
My team has 40+ members, distributed into seven or so “pods” and across several locations. It’s a challenge to communicate information among the multiple pods. In addition, we often face obstacles that cross over multiple pods. We usually have a “cross-pod retrospective” once a month. It’s typically in the “Happy/Puzzler/Sad” format. We collect items in […]
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Podcasts!
I’ve been honored recently to participate in two different podcasts. I talked with Ryan Ripley and on Ryan’s Agile for Humans podcast. We talked about pairing for various things, including presenting and writing, and discussed common challenges we see today related to testing. I’m a big fan of the Agile for Humans podcast, I learn […]
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