Test Management Revisited
Talkat CAST 2016 · on Tuesday, 2016-08-09· at 13:15· Fletcher Challenge Theatre (1900), Simon Fraser University Vancouver 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3·
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Company grows testing from 5 to 23 testers (later ~27) while moving from a central team to embedded testers into teams; leadership experiments with hiring, training, pair-testing, monthly tester retros and Trello task boards. A SWAT group built a performance test environment and proves early benchmarks, which persuades teams to adopt performance practices. Several pivots happen; the embedded model increases visibility, spreads practices via Slack and coaching, and partially succeeds.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:45Question the role of test management
- 6:08Test leadership
- 11:00Vision
- 12:20Strategy
- 18:10Motivation
- 20:33Coaching
- 22:33Leadership
- 23:25Letting go of ideology
- 25:00Testers glue
- 26:25Retros
- 27:10Knowledge Sharing
- 27:58Tester Standups
- 28:55Preparing for Change
- 31:20Struggle
- 32:06Being Leaders
- 35:57Creating Leaders
- 38:27Starting a meaningful discussion
- 40:38Twitter Questions
- 42:16Test Leaders
- 43:16Encourage Testers to Break Out
- 45:47Coaching Non Testers
- 47:09Giving Testers Right to Make Decision
- 49:32Confidence Takes Time
- 50:29Leaders
- 52:53Responsibility
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