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How an Old Test Lead Got Agile

1. Seek Out Advice from the Experts, Inside and Outside 2. Communicate Often and To a Wide Audience 3. Know What the Risks Are and Call Them Out ASAP 4. Get to Know Your Product Owner 5. Don’t Get Caught Up in What You Think You Know 6. Get to Know Your Developers 7. No More Multi-Tasking 8. Embrace the Retrospective 9. Slow Down (a Little) and Enjoy the Ride I spent eighteen years testing before I ever worked withagile. When I suddenly found myself transitioning to an agile team...

August 17, 2017 Agile, waterfall to agile, agile leadership roles

Pair-Coaching

Pair-Coaching in Agile Coaching Some Resistance to Pair-Coaching It’s Not Just the Teams Changing your Lens Adaptive Pair-Coaching Strategy One Voice Wrapping Up I’ve been doing more pairing lately. Much more. But, more specifically pair-coaching. I’ve been pairing in my conference workshops and talks, quite a bit, with Mary Thorn on theagilequality and testing side of things. I’m also pairing with Josh Anderson on our Meta-cast and I’ve done a few presentations with him. Very...

May 11, 2017 agile methodology, agile technique, Agile, pair-coaching

Caught in the Middle: How To Balance Agile Team Needs with Wayward Management Requests

Your Manager Asks for a Massive Test Plan During a Two-week Sprint Your Manager Asks for Resource Estimates for the Next 6 Months Your Manager Asks for a Detailed, Metrics-driven Daily Status Report Your Manger Thinks This is Doing Agile Wrapping Up

April 17, 2017 Agile

A Tester's Guide to Collaborating with Product Owners

March 20, 2017 webinars, News and Events

Bob Galen and Chris Lawson to Present at TriAgile 2017

March 9, 2017 News and Events, zenergy expert

David Dang Presents at Mobile Dev + Test 2017 Conference

The rise in popularity of companies deciding to move from desktop to mobile has led to a large increase in testing of mobile applications. Going mobile presents its own unique set of challenges; especially when trying to ensure your applications are suitable to todays’ numerous devices and OS platforms.

March 7, 2017 News and Events, zenergy expert

Zenergy Presents at QAI's 2017 QUEST Conference

Did you miss Zenergy’s trio present at last year’s QAI’s QUEST Conference? Get ready for round two. Throughout this five-day conference, Zenergy experts Bob Galen, David Dang, and Shaun Bradshaw will present on the following workshops and presentations:

March 1, 2017 quest, News and Events, zenergy expert, qai

Bob Galen Presents Opening Keynote at Innovate Virginia 2017

The term product owner has been tossed around for over two decades. Simply put, the role of a product owner is to carry over the next objectives needed to be built and portray those objectives to the rest of the Scrum team to carry out the clients’ needs. Although the role of a product owner often reveals itself as simple, the notion is much easier understood than achieved.

February 28, 2017 News and Events

Open Source Test Automation: Riding the Second Wave

The second wave of open source test automation tools led by Selenium-based frameworks are continuously outperforming older, commercial tools and open source tools like Fitnesse and Watir. What’s the cause of this major shift responsible for changing how numerous companies are diving into their software test automation? The shift toward web-based applications on desktops and mobile devices and the availability to support them with more advanced open source tools at lower costs.

February 24, 2017 webinars, News and Events

Bugs, Bugs, and More Bugs!

February 21, 2017 agile methodology, agile technique, Agile, defects

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