by Catherine Searle | Mar 23, 2018 | CIO, Customer Experience, Digital, governance, portfolio, Project Management, transformation
“A game of two halves” Is normally an analogy synonymous with football. Manager’s are seen as the master tacticians, responsible for the team’s blueprint for success. How will they engineer a cup run or win the league? They recruit what they...
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 | 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 | 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 | May 22, 2016 | Project Management, Testing
Ok, so the Shakespeare reference is perhaps a little dramatic, but when projects head down the ‘Death March’ route, the cries from Stakeholders and Programme team resonate around the artificial message of togetherness as they demand and plead everyone to...