When reading into Scrum & LeSS (the scrum-based framework we used), it was clear that we weren’t doing anywhere near as much refinement as was recommended. It was understandable and on the face of it, we didn’t think that we were doing a bad job. However we kept working in spaces that we didn’t understand […]
Vision is hard. Often it can feel fluffy and woolly. The vision for our group was “Fulfilling customer needs, through innovative trusted solutions, that we take pride in” but it wasn’t tangible. I established some quality pillars/strands for it. One around discovering behaviours, a sort of BDD-vibe to it and a second about quality attributes […]
Thinking about user journeys in testing isn’t a particularly new topic (although probably truly conducted a lot less than we would like to admit). I suspect even rather than that is the user journey in design and planning. At least once engineering teams are involved. This is something that I’ve had little chance to explore […]
I wanted to share a really cool activity that I did with a couple of developer teams a couple of months ago. Two teams had (roughly) a sprint of testing with a push to be user focused. I was brought in to lead this effort (with no notice!). The end result was a number of […]
I’ve always disliked writing test strategies and plans. Reviewing them was even worse. Just tedious long documents that tell me very little. Usually almost a copy paste as projects tend to be pretty similar. I did play with the one pager but still, it felt like a pointless exercise. We had a ways of working […]