Lots of companies are using the 20th anniversary of a bunch of pale males signing the “Agile Manifesto” at Snowbird. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of the Manifesto, especially the principles. It’s amazing what such a non-diverse group was able to do. At the same time, I am not a fan of labels. […]
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Recently I did a short webinar with Agile Testing Days “AgileTD Mondays” series on “Transferring Testing Skills to the Whole Team. It’s about 20 minutes long, I hope it will inspire you to spread some testing love around your agile team! How do you help non-testers on the team learn testing skills? I’d love to […]
Read MoreThe Twitterverse and other social media continue to host many discussions on topics such as “Do testers need to code?” As Pete Walen points out in his recent post, the “whole team” approach to delivering software, popularized with agile development, is often misunderstood as “everyone must write production code”. The “Whole Team Approach” in practice […]
Read MoreAKA: Moar Agile Testing More (Agile Testing) (More Agile) Testing Janet Gregory and I, along with more than 40 contributors and many helpful reviewers (it takes a village), have finished our new book. We delve into many areas that are new or more important since our first book Agile Testing was published. Please see our […]
Read MoreI’m currently at Booster in beautiful Bergen. It’s a terrific conference, about 240 people which is a perfect number. Everyone is so enthusiastic, the food is great, the sessions are awesome. I’ll blog more about that. I facilitated a workshop today on “changing your testing mindset”. I’ve uploaded the slide deck, and will be blogging […]
Read MoreThanks to the participants in today’s workshop! We tackled quite a few tough testing-related issues that many agile teams encounter. The slides, pictures of all the outcomes such as topics, impact maps and brainwriting pages, are available here. After each table group identified their most burning testing issues, they created SMART goals for each one […]
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