by Catherine Searle | Oct 17, 2017 | governance, Project Management, Testing
Having worked on numerous high profile projects, it is still surprising to find push back from stakeholders and delivery teams not to include dedicated story points and capacity for the not so ‘sexy’ error handling and UI error / warning messages from iteration...
by Catherine 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 Catherine Searle | May 23, 2017 | Agile, Project Management
Sprint Planning in a SCRUM team is an essential piece of the jigsaw. Allowing teams to collectively understand, detail and size stories provides (or at least aims to add) predictability to sprint delivery. Detailing the tasks, integrations, need for stubs and level of...
by Catherine 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 Catherine Searle | Oct 16, 2016 | governance, Project Management, Testing
The value of QA and Test teams has always been an interesting topic, especially when project timelines are under threat. More often than not the criteria for exit is relaxed in order to display progress and products and services that are ‘good enough’. So...
by Catherine Searle | Sep 5, 2016 | Project Management
It’s one of the classic lines from Only Fools and Horses, the story of hope from adversity and a little bit of luck along the way. When you look at the story line, it is very easy (apart from the Millionaire bit!) to draw similarities as an individual to the...
