by Catherine Searle | Mar 19, 2018 | Agile, crowd testing, Customer Experience, governance, portfolio, Project Management, Testing, transformation
As organisations look to transform their business; through initiatives such as cloud adoption, customer centric delivery and commitment to aligning the IT and business worlds to a common goal, it is is no longer enough to treat these as a programme of work. Instead...
by Catherine Searle | Dec 13, 2017 | Agile, governance, Project Management, Testing
Having worked over many years on various sized projects, similarities can be drawn irrespective of who runs the project, what the business priority is and how much budget is available. Wherever you go you are likely to face the same issues or anti-patterns when it...
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 | Mar 8, 2017 | Mobile, Testing
Having spoken to various clients across various industries; there seems to be a general shift away from offshore test centres of excellence towards a more proximate solution. This is especially apparent with respect to mobile device testing. Companies want to call...
by Catherine Searle | Feb 16, 2017 | Digital, Frameworks, Mobile, Testing
Having worked in and around the testing industry for over 15 years, I have seen many changes in the World of testing. The importance of the tester over these years has gone through peaks and troughs. Potential business failures such as Y2K and the implementation of...
