Janet has taught our agile testing course all over the world.  Although she has a timeline and knows approximately how much time each section should take, Janet finds that most classes don’t stick to the same times. Each class is different b...

Over the years, we’ve given talks and listened to others talk about the subject of testers being coaches or consultants. We believe there is a difference between the two.   A coach works with a single person, or a team, helping them t...

Opening the hood The story starts with Janet at a Studebaker meet…  for those who don’t know what a Studebaker is, it’s an antique car, and her husband Jack, has a ’62 GT Hawk (picture below).  During the meet, they took part in a ru...

In June, July and August of 2021, our blog posts were about engaging the whole team early in the discover and planning stages of the loop. We had several suggestions for practices that can help uncover hidden assumptions. In this blog post, w...

Let’s look at a couple of visualizations that help teams identify and mitigate risk. In last month’s blog post, we described Rob Meaney’s visual for making problems visible and sparking discussions about them. Rob has another useful model that hi...

When we work in isolation, we risk losing the best part of an idea. By sharing our ideas – even the half-baked ones – we can spark conversations that grow them into something valuable for ourselves and our community. We’ve heard from leading prac...