Keynote: Deliberate Practice: Reaching your potential

Featuring Janet Gregory

We usually think about practice as repetition, sometimes mindless repetition.

Keynote: What’s Process Got to do with Quality?

Featuring Janet Gregory

Teams and organizations measure many different things. For example, they might measure how many stories they put through in an iteration to try measure how good their development process is, but does that tell us we doing it the ‘right’ way? Organizations often try measure product quality but...

I Want to Use My Magic Wand!

Featuring Janet Gregory

Agile Testers as Educators with Janet Gregory!

Featuring Janet Gregory

Often agile implementations downplay the need for the testing role. Many teams struggle with getting management to understand why testers may be needed on agile teams. These managers have read that testers aren’t needed on agile teams, that the programmers can do all their own testing. This often...

Example Mapping and Structured Conversations

Featuring Janet Gregory

Shared understanding of desired and undesired behaviors for each new product feature is key to delivering value to the business frequently and predictably. However, many teams lack this understanding even as they start coding. As team members, we can explore feature specifications early,...

Live Q&A With Agile Coach Janet Gregory

Featuring Janet Gregory

Join Skills Matter and Janet Gregory for this limited seating event. This event is formed by the community - we'll be crowdsourcing our subject matter the night of the event and going hands on for a live Q&A session for the bulk of the event. This is your chance to get down to brass tacks...

The Trouble with models - specifically the agile testing quadrants

Featuring Janet Gregory

We all use models, or heuristics in our testing, but we also use them in everyday life. Once a model is put out there for other people to use, it becomes either something useful, or in some instances a target to destroy . In Lisa Crispin’s and Janet Gregory’s Agile Testing book, they shared their...

Key Factors for Agile Testing Success

Featuring Janet Gregory

How is testing different for successful agile projects? How can agile development teams employ testers’ skills and experience for maximum value to the project? Janet Gregory describes key factors she has identified for agile teams to succeed, including the whole-team approach of agile development...

“Just” Enough Process

Featuring Janet Gregory

How do you know if you have enough process or too much? If we think about the two extremes, either of them can be harmful.Janet Gregory will give you some ideas about how to find the right answer, some ideas to decide if it is helpful or harmful, and how do you know it fits your team or your...

Current Testing Challenges for Agile Teams

Featuring Janet Gregory

In her talk, Janet will address some of these issues and will lead a discussion on what teams are currently doing in their environments.

Testing Traps to Avoid in Agile Teams

Featuring Janet Gregory

In this talk, Janet Gregory shares some of the lessons she has learned that help agile teams be successful. She talks about what to avoid, what practices are critical, and gives some basic steps that can make the difference between success and failure.

Agile Testing Practices

Featuring Janet Gregory

Janet Gregory will explain how testing fits into the agile process, and what value a tester can add to your agile team. She will talk about the importance of collaboration and simplicity in activities such as automation, ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development), and exploratory testing.

About Learning – for Agile Testers

Featuring Janet Gregory

Janet Gregory shares ideas about how to approach this learning curve and the different influences which help us succeed.

Creating and Sustaining Agile Culture

Featuring Janet Gregory

In this talk, Janet Gregory will explore common mistakes that organizations make, and introduce practices that can be used to help overcome them to create and nurture an Agile culture. Agile development is all about baby steps, celebrating small successes, and continually improving. The right...

Lessons Learned Implementing Agile - From a Testing Perspective

Featuring Janet Gregory

Many teams have tried to implement agile software practices and failed. When you read about it, it sounds so easy. What happened? Janet Gregory, co-author of the Practical Agile Testing course, will share some of the lessons she has learned when working with teams that help agile teams be...

Seven Factors for Agile Testing Success

Featuring Janet Gregory

What do testers need to do differently to be successful on an agile project? How can agile development teams employ testers’ skills and experience for maximum value to the project?