Ongoing Retrospectives: Project Reviews That Work

As evaluators of quality, testers can often identify critical software development problems during the process. So, how do you get other members of the development team to take notice? Lauri MacKinnon offers real-world case studies to illustrate how ongoing project retrospectives make for better testing and higher quality software. She describes ways to get objective data from project reviews done during the project, giving your team a better chance of making timely adjustments. Learn the basics of conducting a project review and interpreting the resulting data. Then, turn this data into useful process improvement changes within the test group and the rest of the software development department.

• Project reviews throughout the development cycle for continuous feedback
• A way to improve testing and other development activities during the project, not after
• How to solicit vital project feedback and present it objectively