STARWEST 2022 Concurrent Session : Avoiding the Chaos of an Agile Transformation

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Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Avoiding the Chaos of an Agile Transformation

Agile is not a fairy tale. You have to face real life challenges well prepared in order to succeed. The reality is: the bigger and older your organization is, the more difficult it is to pass through process level changes and that's when Chaos is born. Resolving all the issues with Chaos could potentially take years. Peter will share his story of one of his projects where he had to face numerous obstacles as a Test Manager in achieving proper Agile implementation and to raise the quality of the products of his client.

Some of the obstacles included: agile ceremonies not followed, conflicts between management and subject matter experts, numerous technical difficulties blocking test automation implementation, and no buy-in from client’s test automation architect. Peter will show how to tackle these difficulties with strong-minded yet polite communication, proper time management, process level strategy changes and a well designed test automation solution.

Péter Földházi
EPAM Systems

Peter has been working at EPAM since 2012 and moved to the USA in 2019 where he is working as a Test Automation Consultant. He has experience in mobile, web and desktop testing in all levels of test automation in the financial, gaming, fitness and other domains. Processes, architecture, code quality and customer satisfaction are highly import to him. He is the first European and one of the first people in the World having successfully taken and passed the ISTQB CTAL Test Automation Engineer module exam. He is actively helping the ISTQB by reviewing syllabi of foundation and advanced levels. Peter is also an active speaker, having attended meetups and software engineering conferences with multiple topics. He used to be a guest lecturer at 3 Budapest based universities: Óbuda, Pázmány and the ELTE universities. Brewing beer and planting chilis are some of his hobbies.