Built-in Quality – How Do You Build Quality In?
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.
Maturing The Enterprise Quality Practice
Description:
The two primary contributors to poor quality in an organization are lack of involvement by management and lack of knowledge about quality. Without the right process and people, quality will be either a cost center or forgotten component by development. To achieve organizational success, enterprise quality must take action to build quality from top down. Managers must accept responsibility for the quality practice within the organization and promote it across the organization. Everyone is responsible for quality, not just QA. The journey is fraught with obstacles – maturing the quality practice of an organization builds long term success with robust process and will train employees.
Key Takeaways:
Everyone is responsible for Quality, but Management is responsible for Quality practice.
Quality is not a destination, it’s a journey.
Games & Puzzles To Build And Improve Testing Skills!
Description:
No doubt you’re an amazing tester. If we could clone you and have twenty such team members we would. Life would be good! We’d crush the testing! But…we can’t clone you. When it comes to our team, the best we can hope for is to hire the right people with the right attitude and aptitude and nurture their QA and testing skills. How do we accomplish such a monumental task?
Throughout my 31 years in IT, I’ve been tasked with building and mentoring testing teams regularly. I do so now to build and sustain my own successful business. Agile and DevOps…no problem! Test automation and frameworks…piece of cake! Build and grow a team…YIKES!
Many years ago, I had an epiphany…GAMES! I recalled my military days and the war games we’d play. I thought back to my consulting for the U.S. Navy to teach them how to automate tests against flight simulators. I flashed back to the puzzles I had to solve in my attempt to become an air traffic controller. History tells us games go back over 2,300 as a tool to teach with Chess being a perfect example. It was used as a strategy teaching game to prepare soldiers to do battle! The games many of us play to improve specific skills…such as memory, speed of thinking, creativity…came to mind.
Thus, I began using games and puzzles. I use them to assess if a potential new hire has what’s needed to be part of our engineering team and to continually hone the skills of our software test engineers.
Join Bob Crews for this interactive, high-participation, fun presentation as we play the games and solve the puzzles which can assist in building and developing phenomenal software testing teams!
The audience will learn:
How games have been used throughout history to hone specific skills of the participants
The types of games to use to assist in identifying personality traits and key attributes
The value of games, puzzles, and games and what both the player and observers can learn
That games do more than teach…they boost moral!
Key Takeaways:
Specific games, puzzles, and brainteasers and the personality traits and attributes they target
An understanding of when to play and when to observe
The correlation between skills needed for games and skills needed by testers