Derk-Jan de Grood

Squerist

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 their adaptivity. While doing so, they learn that it is impossible to speed up the IT deliverance without trusting the quality.

Lean and SAFe have Built-in Quality as a core principle, but what does that mean for teams and organizations?

In this presentation, Derk-Jan will share the challenges he encounters at various organizations. How do teams work and collaborate in order to release valuable increments, and what are approaches to increase the quality awareness? How do we incorporate quality in everything we do, every step of the development cycle?

During the live talk, Derk-Jan will give examples of how quality is organised at team level and in scaled settings where teams need to collaborate on a single increment. We will see that built-in quality is more that doing a lot of unit tests or building a CI/CD pipeline. Built in quality is a multi-level challenge that is gaining importance. Therefore, we will discuss what this means for agile coaches and how they can help teams and agile leads to embed quality into their process.

What you will learn

• How do agile coaches boost quality thinking in their teams
• What do I as an Agile coach need to know about testing
• Understand that Built-in quality is a multi-level challenge that is gaining importance
• Discover real life patterns that make grip on quality a challenge 

This talk is part of the EuroSTAR Deep Dive Week – Agile Edition. You are invited to enjoy live presentations, Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions, eBooks and blogs on agile.