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TK Seven Keys to Navigating Your Agile Testing Transition SOLD OUT
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
Mary Thorn, ChannelAdvisor
Tue, 05/06/2014 - 8:30am

So you’ve “gone agile” and have been relatively successful for a year or so. But how do you know how well you’re really doing? And how do you continuously improve your practices? When things get rocky, how do you handle the challenges without reverting to old habits? You realize that the path to high-performance agile testing isn’t easy or quick. It also helps to have a guide. So consider this workshop your guide to ongoing, improved, and sustained high-performance. Join Bob Galen and Mary Thorn as they share lessons from their most successful agile testing transitions.

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Concurrent Sessions

W4 The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test Strategy
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
Wed, 05/07/2014 - 11:30am

Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile strategy development or worse yet, they are only along for the ride. That’s simply not an effective transformation strategy. Join experienced agile coach Bob Galen as he shares the Three Pillars Framework for establishing a balanced strategic plan to effectively implement agile quality and testing.

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W6 Test Process Improvement in Agile
Jeroen Mengerink, Polteq
Wed, 05/07/2014 - 11:30am

Current Test Process Improvement (TPI) models have proven to be a mismatch when used to assess testing in an agile context, since it is significantly more difficult to describe how to become more flexible than it is to describe how to become more structured. So what’s missing in the current models and how can we help organizations improve their testing in an agile environment? Jeroen Mengerink introduces a systematic model to improve the testing in agile software development.

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