A great presentation from Katrina Clokie. Lots to think about from this one.
Here’s my notes.
Nordic Testing Days – Growing Testing Using The Agile Testing Ecosystem
A really useful presentation and case study from Lee Hawkins. Certainly food for thought, and an approach to consider.
My notes.
Nordic Testing Days – Going Exploratory
A really interesting case study from Eric Brickarp on changing to an exploratory approach. Some great lessons to learn.
Here’s my notes.
Nordic Testing Days – The Testing of Fear
A really good talk from Dan Billing on fear and how it plays a part in testing.
Here’s my notes.
Dan referenced a presentation I have at Nordic Testing Days last year. Thanks Dan!
You can find the slides from that presentation here.
Nordic Testing Days – Remaining Relevant
A great keynote from Rob Lambert.
Here’s my notes (kinda sketch note style this morning 😀).
Nordic Testing Days – Value Sync
Rob Sabourin gave a great keynote to close the first day of Nordic Testing Days. Value Sync.
Can quality products be delivered when teams, customers, users and stakeholders have conflicting values? Rob put forward the concept that the notions of “On time on quality and on budget” are meaningless concepts unless you are “on purpose”.
What do people value? Why do they value it? How does it matter?
I mindmapped the session. The mindmap is not totally complete – Rob talks fast and his slides change quickly so there were a few bits I missed, but hopefully you find it useful.
Nordic Testing Days – Agents of Testing
A really interesting presentation from Adam Howard. This was the first time I’ve seen Adam present, and I really enjoyed it.
I mind-mapped the session.
Nordic Testing Days – Weekend Testing Europe
I’ve just finished watching an excellent presentation by Neil Studd about how he, Amy Phillips and Dan Billing resurrected Weekend Testing Europe.
I mind-mapped the session and I thought you might find it useful so here it is 🙂
Hopefully you enjoy it. I’ve done a couple of Weekend Testing Sessions and really enjoyed them so I recommend everyone tries it out.
There’s much more information on Weekend Testing Europe and how to get involved here.
A Coaching Cafe Service Menu
I’ve just finished speaking at Nordic Testing Days about my journey from Test Manager to Test Coach and beyond.
As I mentioned in the presentation, as coaches we started to generate a pull for our services by using a coaching menu. Since some people asked me after the presentation about what that was, then I thought I’d make it available for all.
So here it is 🙂 Hope you find it useful.
West London Lean Coffee 28th May
We had a great lean coffee session this morning, in the excellent surroundings of Carluccio’s cafe in Westfield. A mix of topics and a mix of new people and regulars, meant that we had a very varied set of discussions.
Here’s what we talked about, and what we didn’t get time to talk about. Come along next time and we may get to talk about some of those un-discussed topics, plus I’m sure a whole lot of new one’s.
Discussed
- How to get buy-in at the very top.
- Social media – a sales channel or a communication channel.
- Is there still a need for project management?
- Sprint planning with cross-functional teams.
- How to manage unplanned work on a scrum project?
For Next Time?
- Are testers living in a bubble?
- Are public beta’s a good idea?
- Business development and networking – how to follow-up?
- Does having BA’s encourage absentee product owners?
- How to achieve a stable pace of delivery throughout a project.
- How to create a simple CRM.
The next #leancoffee will be on Thursday 25th June at 8:30am in Carluccio’s Westfield. Hope to see you there.
More details and to signup – http://www.meetup.com/Lean-Coffee-London/events/221705038/