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5 Agile Tools for Project Managers

Project managers have a lot on their plate. Not only do they need to keep track of project deadlines and milestones, but they also need to ensure that projects are…
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Regression testing in Agile Universe: Where It Fails and How To Fix It

Agile methodologies have taken over software development in recent years, and for a good reason. The agile approach promotes multiple and frequent iterations of the product, which is great from…
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Test Manager, Orchestrator or Quality Coach?

Gitte Ottosen

For some years we have been talking about the role of the tester, and how it should/might change in the light of new ways of delivering software – with agile,…
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Why Communication is so Important in the Agile Project Process

A continual flow of projects is the only way for a business to survive in these challenging times. An innovative strategy such as Agile Methodology should promote increased productivity with…
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How Agile Principles Help in A Remote Working Atmosphere

If you are looking to improve your remote working conditions, you might implement the Agile methodology to support your team. An Agile working environment helps establish the foundation for better…
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How to Build An Agile Software Development Team

People are the workforce to build everything we know, software included. A software development team is in charge of every existing software. From the tiniest piece of code to the…
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The 8 Different Agile Frameworks & When To Use Them

One of the keys to successful project management is applying the correct Agile methodology to a project. Understanding why someone would choose the Scaled Agile Framework over every other…
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How to Build An Agile Team For Software Development

People are the workforce to build everything we know, software included. A software development team is in charge of every existing software. From the tiniest piece of code to the…
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Role of Test Automation in Agile and DevOps

Let's walk you through the roles that test automation plays in Agile and development operations. Stay updated on the latest tools that move the needle of software development with this…
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What is a Common Misconception About Agile and DevOps?

These two are the most popular buzzwords in the corporate world. But what do these two flexible methods really entail? Teams often confuse them when there are very different approaches…
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What is Agile Product Development? How Agile Deals With Product Development Security

The Agile model has taken the testing and software development world by storm, providing the best range of software solutions, mobile apps, and websites. In fact, due to its functionality…
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ERP software and Agile Methodology: Cons and Pros

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) advantages for organisations are well-known throughout all over the world. But, ERP implementation projects are difficult, costly, and extremely risky. A lot of ERP Implementation projects…
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The Impact of DevOps and Agile on Outsourcing

Why it's important to shift to a DevOps model of creating and deploying Internet Development and applications today. How does outsourcing affect this kind of performance? Are there any…
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Agile Vs. DevOps: What’s the difference?

Modern software developers use Agile and DevOps to launch software in the market. These are two different methodologies to bring software to the market more efficiently. Though the purpose of…
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The Waves of Agile, a new book on value delivery with a focus on quality

In 2016, Derk-Jan de Grood wrote a book to help organizations to start with the Agile. “Since that time, I have learned a lot”, says the author who recently published…
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The Power of an Agile Mindset

Linda Rising

What is an "an agile mindset"? Research has identified an attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning, a belief that we can all improve over time, that…
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Deep Dive Week: Agile Edition Review

So its been a crazy week in Huddle world. We are just recovering from such a fun and fulfilling week of talks and sessions with some of software testing best…
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Rolling Wave PI Planning

I’m writing this around the time when businesses are essentially locked down by Covid-19 and everyone is working virtually. It remains to be seen what types of working habits and…
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What Lifecycle or Agile Framework Fits Your Context?

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you have technical or schedule risk. Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Maybe you'd like to…
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An Agile Team In A Waterfall Company – Values, Principles, And Behaviours

Much has been written on the distinction of being agile versus doing agile. The crux of being agile is embracing the values and principles that underpin agile. Those values and…
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The Dark Art of Testing in Agile

Testing is like the dark arts. It hides in the shadows of projects probing silently, mocked openly and looked down with disdain by those who think they know better. But…
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Story Sherpas

I’ve written a lot about product ownership, product backlogs, and user stories over the years. But the other day it struck me that I hadn’t shared something that has worked…
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Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done: Taking on More Than Possible

One of the classic issues that pop up when teams chronically don’t complete work they say they will, in the time they say they will is that they are taking…
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Testing Vs Quality Management – What Is Quality

What is Quality In my most recent blog posts ‘What is Testing’ and ‘Testing Activities’, I shared my thoughts on testing. There is a close relationship between testing and quality,…
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Cooking With Kanban

Kanban in a kitchen? A friend of mine used to be a chef, but he became a software developer. At the time he had just started on my team, and…
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Continuous Improvement – Disconnected

The improvement imperative is driven by the need to stay competitive at a holistic level. One would expect that continuous process improvement or continuous improvement would be discussed earnestly at…
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What Happened to the Daily Standup?

I started my career in a previous century, with project plans that were two months of analysis, two months of design, four months of code and two months of testing.…
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7 Ways Doing Scrum Wrong Hurts Software Quality

When quality issues arise, many Scrum teams look to testing and technical development practices to address the problems. What they often miss is that poor implementation of Scrum has directly…
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Motivating An Agile Team

Someone approached me the other day for some coaching advice. It seems that they’re in a Coach / Scrum Master role and have a Agile team that, well, isn’t doing…
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Agile Maturity vs Ability to Change

Several of my clients want to use some sort of maturity assessment for their agile transformations. Often, the maturity levels demand adherence to specific practices or processes. Some of those…
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Understanding the DevTestOps Journey

For the last two years, our team has hosted the Testing in DevOps Landscape Survey to take the pulse on how quality testing is evolving as adoption of DevOps grows.…
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Is Living Documentation a good way to document?

It would be great if the answer were “yes”. To answer the question, I’ll talk about how a Living Documentation can be a documentation, and then about what makes it…
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The Hammer and the Pickle

I’m not sure everyone is aware of some of the greats who have come before us but there have been many in our software development space. One of them is…
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Waterfall vs. Agile vs. Scrum vs. Kanban

Project management has evolved significantly in recent years. I remember from my first ever project I was using Waterfall methodology. There have been a number of project management frameworks and…
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The Biggest Problem I see Agile teams face and the solution that works for me

When I work with teams from all over the world (multiple different national cultures, multi-national, distributed or co-located), the biggest problem I see those teams struggle with is very simple. They…
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You May Be Tired Of ‘Agile,’ But It’s The Only Way To Make Hybrid Work

Despite some early hiccups in the 1990s and early 2000s, chronicled in a June 2020 New York Times story as “The Long, Unhappy History of Working from Home,” most people realize that…
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Cobbled Together Scrum Teams

I’ve seen cobbled together Scrum teams for years, but I realized just the other day that I’ve never written about them. So, now I will… What are they? They are…
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Creating Agile Super Teams

Selena Delesie

Ever hear of Super Teams? Agile is founded on collaboration, connection, and growing together. So we shun the superhero who needs to save the day. But what if heroes aren't…
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Let’s Talk Quality – what does “Quality” mean for your customer?

Gitte Ottosen

We talk a lot about quality in Agile, both as test professionals and as members of an agile team. Things like “quality is the teams responsibility” or the term built-in…
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Testing in Agile Contexts – AMA

Bob Galen

Join Bob Galen for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) where Bob will take YOUR questions on all aspects of Agile. This EuroSTAR Deep Dive event is a fantastic opportunity to…
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Testing in Continuous Delivery – a Whole Team Approach

Lisa Crispin

Join Lisa Crispin for a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session this March. Lisa will take YOUR questions on all aspects of Agile and the team approach to testing in…
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Built-In Quality

Derk-Jan de Grood

Agile coaches often focus on agile mindset, cultural change, collaboration and continues improvement. Organisations have adopted Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD practices widely in order to increase the delivered value and…
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Testing In The Scaled Agile Framework

Gitte Ottosen

The arrival of the different scaled agile development models has changed the way of working in an agile context. Scaled Agile Framework or is one of those models. In this…
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Shift left testing concepts and benefits

This is an introduction to the concept of Shift Left Testing. Over a period, people realized the importance of Software Testing and the impact of keeping the ‘Testing Phase’ on…
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Agile Product Quality

Erik van Veenendaal

Contrary to what is commonly assumed, Agile software development does not always, in practice, result in higher levels of product quality. This is despite the fact that quality is said…
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Maintaining Quality Standards When Nothing Stays Constant

Mia Johansson

Building A House Maintaining Quality Standards When Nothing Stays Constant By now, software projects have been around for a while. However, in the grand scheme of things, they are still…
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Agile Testing: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

COVID -19 has made us all look at the world in a different way. For many of us, this has been very challenging and we have been forced to change.…
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The T-Shaped Tester

Erik van Veenendaal

In this Agile era the concept of being a T-shaped person is a popular one. This is defined as someone who is capable in many things and an expert in…
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3-Pillars of Agile Quality & Testing

Bob Galen

Key Actionable Learnings Explores the agile test automation pyramid as a strategy for building balanced, multi-tier, multi-tool automation frameworks. Details how to integrate traditional testing approaches and tactics within agile…
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Is Colocation Really Necessary in Agile Testing Methodology

Is colocation needed? The Agile testing methodology was constituted to address the inadequacies of the waterfall method and to deliver a qualitatively superior product to the customer. It envisages better…
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10 things you’ll learn in DevOps, Agile & AI [Webinar Series]

Join our Test & Quality webinar series 25th-27th May and engage with three testing experts Rik Marselis, Leanne Howard and Adam Leon Smith, on three hot topics Quality for DevOps…
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Agile Testing – yesterday, today and tomorrow

Leanne Howard

Looking to accelerate your testing? COVID-19 has made us all look at the world in a different way. For many of us this has been very challenging, and we have…
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Top 4 Agile Testing Challenges

Testing challenges have been a topic of discussion for a long time, but mix in agile and everything picks up speed. This is mainly because Agile testing has become the…
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DevOps: Test Alone

Bjorn Boisschot

As in the movie HomeAlone, it seems that Dev and Ops have gone on a journey and forgot to take testing/QA with them. We hear big companies tell stories that…
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5 Most Popular Agile Testing Tools of All Time

Agile testing concepts have always been a favorite of development firms. The easiness of catching errors and the faster process of finding them out- all these comprise of the best…
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Let’s Get Your Testing Kickstarted into the New Year!

As 2019 draws to a close, let's get you and your team ahead of the testing game for 2020. We have just launched a brand new series. Let's get your…
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How AI Transforms Agile Software Testing

Agile methodologies have changed how we get work done. In the software development space, this change-driven approach transformed how we developed and tested software and mobile applications. Unlike frameworks like…
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Cultivating High Performing Teams for Every Business Need.

Diana Larsen

Cultivating High Performing Teams A successful team begins as a collection of individuals with complementary technical skills. As the team adopts agile practices, a team culture shift occurs. Instead of planning…
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Measuring Release Quality and Delivering Release Value

Marina Bechaalani

Within a 2000+ employees company, it is very challenging to ensure that the needed quality is delivered to clients. Clients should have the same experience using the final product from…
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Combining Scrum with Kanban – a Test/Quality Perspective

Fran O'Hara

Many organisations today continue to struggle to achieve an effective approach to testing in their contexts. There are testing and quality challenges with the use of Agile/Scrum and Lean/Kanban and…
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