Testers & Teams on the Agile Fluency™ Journey

Testers and Teams on the Agile Fluency™ Journey

DianaLarsenh+p://agilefluency.org

@AgileFluency @DianaOfPortland

Copyright2016,TheAgileFluency™Project

The Agile Fluency™ Model

Positive

Every Incremental Investment Holds Value

Promotes Improvement

Striving Along the Pathway Illuminates New Benefits

Inclusive

Any and All Methods

and Frameworks Can

Get You There


Fluency

What you do automatically without thinking

Routine, smooth, skillful ease

Praxis: noun practical application of a theory

Return from an INVESTMENT in learning


The Agile Fluency™

Pathway





•  A Group of Skilled

Individuals

•  Tools and Resources to

Develop the Product


•  Everyone Sees Progress from a Business Perspective

•  Redirect the Team When Needed

Outcomes: Focus on Value


Team Success over

Individual Success

•  Learn agile project and work management

•  Receive coaching and training

•  Work as a team

Team

Role of Testing


•  Help Product write acceptance tests

•  Testing included in Definition of Done

•  Work closely with the team to automate tests

Team Success over

Individual Success •  Learn to manage teams •  Dedicate team members •  Co-locate Team •  Make Product Owner

available to the Team •  Address disincentives to

team work •  Focus on removing

impediments to team success

Organization


•  Ship on Market Cadence

•  Capture Value Frequently

•  Reveal Obstructions Early

Outcomes: Deliver Value


Agile Engineering Practices

•  StudyandpracIceagileengineeringtechniques

•  Openmindstotheunusual(.e.g.:Sharedownershipofcode,Pairprogramming,Zerobugs)

•  Cross-train

Team

•  TesIngpartofcross-funcIonalteam•  GeneralizingSpecialists•  AdoptexploratorytesIngapproach•  QualityenablesconInuous

integraIon,deployment&delivery

Role of Testing


Agile Engineering Practices

•  ProvideImeandpaIencetoaddresstechnicaldebt

•  Integratetechnicaldisciplines(e.g.,QA+Ops+UX)

•  Embedagileprogrammers•  Acceptthecounter-intuiIve

Organization


•  Make Excellent Product Decisions

•  Eliminate Handoffs •  Speed Decision

Making

Outcomes: Optimize Value


Product Expertise Within The Team •  Remain patient for

organization change •  Build trust by owning value

and delivering consistently •  Learn the business and the

customer

Team

Role of Testing •  Learn & communicate the

desired business outcomes •  Learn how the customer

defines quality •  Work to market cadence •  Increase emphasis on

exploratory testing Copyright2016,TheAgileFluency™Project

Product Expertise Within The Team

Organization

•  Incorporate business experts as team members

•  Create product/market focused teams

•  Transfer responsibility for budgets, plans to Team

•  Install Cross-Functional Management Teams

•  Judge based on results, not adherence to plans


•  Stimulate Innovation •  Optimize Value

Stream •  Invent New Markets

and Organizations

Outcomes: Optimize for Systems


What fluency zone does your team work in now? Where does tes@ng fit? What zone of benefits does your organiza@on need?


• OpportunitytoPracIce Invest at Your Learning Threshold Create Opportuni@es for Prac@ce


Calling Your Shot


What investment will be required to help tes@ng and teams reach the benefit zone you need and want? Does your organiza@on have the will to make those investments?



Grow the teams you need to get the delivery outcomes you want. Take the next steps on your Agile Fluency™ Journey.

Thank You! DianaLarsen

h+p://agilefluency.org@AgileFluency @DianaOfPortland


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