Unlocking Agile Potential: The Role of Quality Coaches
summary
Argues that creating a quality coach role produces concrete change not slogans offering specific practices: risk-based testing integrated into sprint planning, test design techniques that cut 6,720 combinatorial cases to 35 with pairwise or 178 with triple-wise, and building reliable CI/CD pipelines alongside unit API and targeted GUI automation. Shows how to pick context appropriate quality measures, how to visualize a small set of meaningful metrics, and which tool and training investments actually reduce manual regression and speed delivery.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Quality coaching in agile
- 2:07Disappearing test manager role
- 7:27Why agile needs quality coaches
- 12:27Building quality coach role
- 15:58Context for quality coaches
- 17:00Shift quality left in agile
- 22:00Effective test strategies
- 25:11Automation vs manual testing
- 27:44Testing in requirements
- 32:38Quality with stakeholders
- 35:10Quality metrics improvement
- 36:33Quality coach as craftsman
- 37:14Summary
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