by Daryl Searle | Aug 4, 2017 | Agile Testing, governance, Project Management, Testing
Travelling around different clients, with different objectives; different risk appetites; the one question that always comes up is related to Governance. Irrespective of what Methodology your project is following; be it SCRUM, Waterfall, SCRUMFALL, there will always...
by Daryl Searle | Apr 20, 2017 | Agile, Agile Testing, Project Management
Wherever you go, whatever blog post you read, whatever company you do business with; there is likely to be a general journey theme when it comes to implementing agile; especially the transition from positivity through to surrender. “We are doing agile”; “my velocity...
by Daryl Searle | Jan 26, 2017 | Agile Testing, Testing
Yesterday I attended my first TMF in a number of years and was delighted to be asked to facilitate a session. The forum, organised and hosted by Paul Gerrard (@paul_gerrard) and for the first time the Programme was chaired by Mike Jarred (@MikeJarred) had a good turn...
by Daryl Searle | Jul 6, 2016 | Agile Testing, Testing
I often get asked my views on testing agility, is it achievable? Can it keep pace with development, how flexible to change is the approach; the list goes on. In truth, the level of agility within the test team needs to be driven by the level of agility in the...
by Daryl Searle | Jul 3, 2016 | Agile Testing, Security
One of my favourite quotes from Good Morning Vietnam, with the late Robin Williams still resonates for me in my working life; particularly when we look at the security of our software. Perhaps more apt would be to state “we don’t have a problem with...
by Daryl Searle | May 9, 2016 | Agile Testing, Customer Experience, Digital, Testing
The concept of a user story is not new, there are numerous training courses available, as well as supporting publications that inform us how to write that killer user story that is detailed enough to provide clarity and a value based function, yet simple enough to...
