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Metrics That Matter
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Imagine you’re a test manager starting a new assignment. On the first day of work, you’re presented with a list of metrics you are to report. Soon, you realize that most of the metrics are not really connected to what should be measured. Or, consider the situation where you’re told that...
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Pablo Garcia, Redmind
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The Test Manager’s Role in Agile: Balancing the Old and the New
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What do test managers do? In traditional organizations, they assign people to projects, oversee the testers’ progress, provide feedback, and perhaps offer coaching to people who want it. Test managers are the go-to people when you don't know how to do something—not because they know...
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Mary Thorn, ChannelAdvisor
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Video: Driving Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
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The Lean Startup® methodology has taken the business world by storm and is revolutionizing product development through the application of a Build-Measure-Learn cycle, and the systematic application of techniques such as Customer Discovery, Customer Development, and Pirate Metrics. With...
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Sanjiv Augustine, LitheSpeed
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Video: For Maximum Awesome
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An agile hardware and engineering company of 500 collaborators in twenty countries, Team WIKISPEED uses test-first development practices, is run by Scrum teams, and produces road legal cars, micro-houses, and social-good projects. Joe Justice shares how their 100-MPG road car was created...
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Joe Justice, Scrum, Inc
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Video: Producing Product Developers
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Many teams and organizations have found agile methods help them produce more. Where critical thinking is alive, a more important question arises: Are we producing the right thing? Even though agile tools and processes have helped produce more, they often fail to help us produce the right...
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David Hussman, DevJam
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Video: SAFe: The Scaled Agile Framework
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The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a popular process for enterprise-wide agile adoption. It is a pre-built framework that describes the individual roles, teams, activities, and artifacts necessary to scale agile from team to enterprise level while providing a cadence for teams to follow...
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Jared Richardson, Agile Artisans
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Video: See the Value: Focus on Delivering the Right Software
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Many agile teams focus solely on velocity as their measure of progress. They draw burn-up charts to track it over time and make it the focus of much of their discussion during sprint planning and retrospectives. Is the strong focus on this metric truly in line with the principles of...
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Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, LeanDog and Ardita Karaj, EPAM
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Video: The Secrets of Mobile App Testing
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Most app teams aim for 4 stars—not 5. Why? Because delivering and maintaining a high-quality app becomes more challenging every day. Agile engineering and continuous integration put more pressure than ever on testers and quality-focused developers. Add to that the raw complexity of device...
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Jason Arbon, Applause
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Video: An Agile Throwdown: Munich Takes on the Columbus Agile Benchmark Study
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Agile has not only gone mainstream, it’s gone global. Data on agile team performance, time-to-market, and quality have emerged in the past decade. In 2012, a group of...
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Michael Mah, QSM Associates, Inc.
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Mobile App Testing Secrets
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Most app teams aim for 4 stars. Why not 5? Because delivering and maintaining a high-quality app becomes more challenging every day. The requirements of agile and continuous integration...
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Jason Arbon, Applause
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