agile teams Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Adventures in Retrospectives: Helping a large team focus!

February 11, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, continual improvement, Retrospectives, Uncategorized / 6 Comments

I’m a tester on a (to me) relatively large team. Recently I was asked to facilitate an all-hands retro for our entire team. I’d like to share this interesting and rewarding experience. It’s not easy for a large team to enjoy a productive retrospective. I hope you’ll share your experiences, too. At the time of […]

The Illusion of Control

October 5, 2015 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, continual improvement, control, learning for testers, magnificence, Uncategorized / 3 Comments

Recently I listened to one of Amitai Schlair’s excellent Agile in 3 Minutes podcasts (also available on iTunes), about Control. We had a brief Twitter conversation about it with Karina B., aka @GertieGamer. Amitai tweeted, “We can’t control what happens to us, but we control how we’d like to feel about it next time + […]

A tester’s life

May 14, 2015 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, communicating, pairing, Uncategorized / 8 Comments

I work every day as a tester on the Pivotal Tracker team. Some people think that because I’ve written books and speak at conferences I must be a full time consultant, but my passion lies in being a member of a great team and doing hands-on testing. It’s easy for me to go around telling […]

A Product Owner’s Perspective

January 5, 2012 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, software quality, Whole Team Approach / 4 Comments

I had the opportunity to talk with Gil Zilberfeld, product owner with Typemock, a software company whose products are designed to help developers with their unit testing. I don’t often get to talk to product owners, and I was interested in his views on testing and quality. (Disclaimer: I have no experience with using Typemock’s […]

What I’ve been writing instead of blog posts!

September 20, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, experiments, learning for testers, TechTarget articles, Transitioning to agile, Whole Team Approach, writing / No Comments

I have been doing some writing in the past six weeks, in addition to rehabilitating my broken-and-now-healed ankle. But it’s all been published elsewhere. Here are some links: Software Quality Connection, “How to Improve Communication between QA and Development“ SearchSoftwareQuality.com, “Agile development: The whole-team approach” Also on SearchSoftwareQuality.com, “The whole-team approach to Agile development: Examples […]

Agile in Action: Virtual Seminar, Live Dec. 14 from SearchSoftwareQuality

November 10, 2010 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, remote team members / No Comments

I’m presenting in a virtual multi-media seminar sponsored by SearchSoftwareQuality on Dec.14: Agile in Action: Extending Agile Approaches in Testing, Development and Application Lifecycle Management. I’ll be talking about challenges faced by agile teams that are not co-located. This event is free, though you have to register. David West and Nari Kannan are also presenting.