Imagine that you run a software consultant shop where you take on projects for customers. The projects cover such areas as new software development; implementations of IT systems; and web site development.
Let’s say that you are about to create a offer for a new project to a customer.
Do you dare to specify the proper amount [...]
A lot of these ideas come from Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. As I see it, they realised it is easier to show things that will stop the growth instead of listing things that will actually create the team. Jelled teams are created when many of the factors have been eliminated that stop [...]
From a managerial perspective without knowing too much about testing, your sole experience comes from the scripted test environment…
What does Scripted Testing include?
Control over what is to be tested, in the sense that you have a clear coverage of test cases on certain areas. Reports where you can see exactly how many test cases are [...]
What is essence of the discussion on release team/showstopper meetings?
I am assuming that there is a meeting. I’ve been to many different kinds of showstopper meetings and most companies handle them differently. One important item on the agenda for the meeting is usually the bugs that are found late in the project, thus at the [...]
Who makes the decision that the product is ready for release?
There are many different cases of this situation, here are a few examples.
In some companies it is the QA department that makes this decision. This means that it is QA that takes the risk for the release. It also means that if something happens after [...]
The indispensible worker is the one who always saves the day by touching the program by giving some magic input in order for it to work. He will quickly get the work done and make the customer happy. Upper management will see him as the perfect employee, but many co-workers will think differently.
In the indispensible [...]
How many should be employed?
The quick answer is as many employees that are needed to call the team flexible, but it is not as simple a that. In order to get resources for the team, the team leader usually need to prove he/she needs resources at a certain time. Since the team tries to be [...]
Introduction
The flexible testing team is one way of organising the testing team. It will not be the optimal in all situations and it might not fit all organisations or companies. It might not even be possible to fulfill this because of management issues. In any case, this is one way of looking at it and [...]