QUALITY MANAGEMENT This post is the final post in my series about what I see as the differences between testing (Part 1 – What is Testing and Part 2 – Testing Activities) vs quality management (Part 3 – What is Quality and 4 – Quality Managment). Who Owns Quality The whole team needs to take […]
metrics, quality, quality assurance, quality management
What is Quality In my most recent blog posts ‘What is Testing’ and ‘Testing Activities’, I shared my thoughts on testing. There is a close relationship between testing and quality, but they are not the same. Testing in some ways, assesses quality, but only to a certain degree. My intention was to make this the […]
quality, quality management, testing
Testing Activities In my previous blog post Part 1, What is Testing, I talked about what I felt testing was about. In this second part of my series about testing and quality management, I get more specific about different types of testing and expand on models that help teams visualize testing so the whole team […]
agile testing quadrants, quality attributes, testing, testing activities
What’s the difference between testing and quality management? Over the past few years, I’ve been thinking about quality and what it means. I’ve done a few talks on it and engaged in several conversations with different people. Recently a LinkedIn conversation sparked my thoughts in a different direction – about the relationship between testing and […]
preventing defects, quality, testing
The following quote came from James Clear in his January 2020 newsletter (https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1). “Reading is like a software update for your brain. Whenever you learn a new concept or idea, the ‘software’ improves. You download new features and fix old bugs.” He says your past is fixed, but your interpretation of it can change depending on the […]
fail fast, learn fast, learning, perspective
In a class I taught in Copenhagen, we had a discussion about limiting work in progress and concentrating on getting each story to “Done” before taking on more work. Later, as I was going through security at the Copenhagen airport and going through passport control, I was reminded why small batches are so important. Picture […]
Done, limit work in progress, priorities, WIP limits
I wrote a blog post back in 2016 with the same title. A different event inspired me to write about the same idea and I think it bears repeating. Last week, I was at a client site in California – the state that prides itself on being eco-friendly. By the door (on the way out […]
communication, quality, responsibility, whole team
A term I use quite a bit when I’m teaching a class is ‘artificial constraints’ – those barriers we put up in our head that are non-existent. For example, sometimes I walk into a class and the table for my ‘stuff’ is in the wrong place and I walk around it for an hour before […]
artificial constraints
Paul Seaman (from Australia and @beaglesays on twitter) took me up on my offer to chat and we ended up having a great discussion about tasks and columns on a story board among many other things. I learned a little, and he took away some ideas that he wants to try with his team – a win-win in my books.
communication, story board, testing tasksThis morning I received notification that a friend had passed away. Many remember him as a shaker and a doer in the agile community. He was that, but he did it quietly. He made changes without a lot of fanfare. He told stories – many of them starting when he was doing his rock star […]