DOES14 - Tommy Norman - Holland Square Group
summary
A $300M regulated healthcare company with hardware cabinets moves a two‑year limping next‑gen project into steady delivery by reorganizing into product core teams, building an automated lab per team from reclaimed hardware and Walmart refrigerators, scripting a hardware emulator, consolidating on TFS, and adding automated deployments and targeted test automation. Results: 50% less regression testing time, ~30% immediate drop in defects, same‑day client deployments after Sprint Reviews, and a 21% market share increase.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:29Agenda
- 1:00Tommy Norman
- 1:52Company X
- 6:39Teams Build Around Skillsets
- 7:29Quality Assurance
- 8:25Defect Management
- 9:15Little Collaboration
- 10:03Hardware Labs
- 11:13Estimation & Planning
- 12:53A Release in Jeopardy
- 14:18Agile Values and Principles
- 16:31Scrum Teams
- 19:26Organizational Silos
- 20:07Product Focus
- 23:01Testing Lab
- 24:23Automated Deployments
- 26:38Test Automation
- 28:37Too Many Tools
- 28:55Consolidated Tools
- 29:12Results (Anecdotal)
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