Description:

Organizations have adopted Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD practices widely in order to increase their adaptivity. While doing so, they learn that it is impossible to speed up the IT deliverance without trusting the quality. Lean and SAFe have Built-in Quality as a core principle, but what does that mean for teams and organizations?

In this presentation, Derk-Jan will share the challenges he encounters at various organizations. How do teams work and collaborate in order to release valuable increments, and what are approaches to increase quality awareness? We will discuss the role of testers on the team level but also investigate how quality is organized in scaled settings where teams need to collaborate on a single increment. How can you organize quality on release level, what types of releases can we distinguish and who is responsible? What do we see in practice and how should it work? In order to have quality built-in, we need more than just good tests. But a strategy also. Implementing this on various levels is challenging and has an impact on the way we develop our software.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand that built-in quality is a multi-level challenge that is gaining importance

• Discover real-life patterns that make grip on quality a challenge

• Have a look at practices in order to improve the quality

• How to define quality feedback loops and the impact on the development and business.