Books
A Guide for Facilitating Quality Assessments: With Case Studies using QPAM
Co-author Selena Delesie
Conducting an assessment of work practices for a software team or organization can be daunting. Janet and Selena share the process they’ve used for decades to help organizations understand where they are in their quality journey. Whether you are an external or internal consultant, or a team who wishes to self-assess, the steps are mapped out for you. This book guides you from starting an assessment engagement to gathering information, conducting interviews and process retrospectives, evaluating results, and finally creating and delivering your report.
This book is a companion to Janet and Selena’s Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM: Enabling Teams to improve, which explains the assessment model in detail. It also has four case studies in detail to show what teams may look like in their daily practices in each of the four dimensions of the QPAM model: Beginning, Unifying, Practicing and Innovating.
Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM
Co-author Selena Delesie
The book provides a deeper view of what it means to truly deliver successfully in an agile way. Janet and Selena introduce a quality practices assessment model (QPAM) that considers dimensions and quality aspects for behaviors and practices within teams and organizations. Consultants, coaches, managers, and even team members learn what high quality looks like for feedback loops, testing, code quality, culture, and more.
The reader is invited to dig deep to reflect on the quality of their products as well as the quality of a team’s agile processes and those of the entire organization. The model enables teams to assess where they are, and what practices they may want to improve.
Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction
Co-author Lisa Crispin
- How to fit testing activities into an agile cycle
- Who is responsible for completing various testing activities, and when
- How to get everyone on a delivery team engaged in continuous testing in DevOps
- Ways to plan testing activities using visual models, including automation
- How to evaluate testing effectiveness and continually improve
LeanPub e-versions available: mobi, epub and pdf
Amazon availability: Kindle, Paperback
Translations available on LeanPub: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese
More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team
Co-author Lisa Crispin
Packed with new examples from real agile teams, More Agile Testing offers important new insights into questions such as: What is the true role of a tester? Do agile teams actually need members with QA backgrounds? What does it really mean to be an agile tester? How do we successfully implement and manage a testing program in an agile setting? Whatever your role in creating, running, or responding to agile tests, Crispin and Gregory bring together the world’s best wisdom — and show you how to take advantage of it.
Translations available: Chinese
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Co-author Lisa Crispin
Translations available: Japanese; Russian; Korean
