Test the Emergency Procedures

Having company procedures for everything is nice. As a testing professional, you have unique skills to bring to the table in trying and testing the procedures - what's the worst that could happen?

Sprouting Testing in New Fields

What is blocking us is the perception that our testing skills cannot be applied outside (software) testing. Of course, they can, and often they are exactly what is required for other parts of the organization to grow.

Throw a Disaster Party

For the next sprint have a disaster recovery test. Of course, you have a plan for that! Having a plan for a disaster is nice but remember the old saying that backups are irrelevant if you can’t restore. So do test your recovery plans as well.

Leadership as an Individual Contributor

Individual contributors can convey leadership both in roles and activities without being in the formal organizational management hierarchy. The practical organization for this can take many forms.

To go fast - Go slow

We need to be better a confirming the requirements consistently and continuously - also the compliance and non-functional requirements. The best way to do this is to go slow and build instrumentation along the way.

Aligning with management

Recently, I was discussing test leadership with an experienced practitioner in the agile testing space 👋. The topic of aligning with management came up again. I skipped the topic then. But afterward, I kept pondering the question: How can we get better management buy-in for testing?

What If Everything Is Equally Important

The Product Risk Analysis is biased toward functional risks. Let's consider a broader picture of the solution under test.

Different - Yet the Same

There are so many places where testing happens. Everyone plays their part. IT testers don't own the words "test" or "quality" - we are not the only ones who can design and perform a test.

Enter Compliance Requirements

We have long fought between functional and non-functional requirements in IT systems development. A new requirement character—compliance—is entering the stage, requiring you to broaden the scope of the testing activities.

The Information, the Opportunity, and the Mindset

There was a standoff in a recent project of mine. It had no gunslingers, hangman’s rope, or a pot of gold. The standoff was about how to work.

Testing Is The New Black

Is this the first time you have a compliance testing challenge? It's not my first time.