To paraphrase Elisabeth Hendrickson’s “agile acid test”, modern software development is about delivering small chunks of value to customers frequently, at a sustainable pace. That “sustainable pace” encompasses all the good development practices ...

A few years ago, Lisa’s team used an online tracking tool to visualize and manage their work. The team practiced kanban, though they had regular work sessions such as story readiness workshops and retrospectives on a two-week iteration schedule. ...

There’s plenty of evidence showing the downsides of frequently switching tasks and contexts – search on “task-switching is bad” in your favorite search engine to get an idea. Yet, the reality is that many testing and quality practitioners support...