EU-NIS2
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?
Jesper Ottosen
Leadership
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.
Resilience
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.
StaffLevel
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.
ITregulations
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.
Risks
Aligning with management
Recently, I was discussing test leadership with an experienced practitioner in the agile testing space đź‘‹. 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?
ITregulations
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.
ChangeManagement
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.
ITregulations
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.
ChangeManagement
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.
TestingIsTheNewBlack
Testing Is The New Black
Is this the first time you have a compliance testing challenge? It's not my first time.