Resilience
It’s Time for Business Continuity and Exit Plans
How hard is it for you to pull the plug for your IT services and move elsewhere? It's not a matter of when you need this - but how prepared you want to be.
ITregulations
Compliance
Compliance Coaching for the Delivery Teams
I can understand why delivery teams would seem overwhelmed by the volume and think that it's a hindrance in delivering software solutions in a modern way. One way to enable the delivery teams with security and compliance know-how is to have them supported by a Compliance Coach.
Compliance
We all work with Risks, Questions and Requirements
Risks, Questions and Requirements are surely part of the tester's hierarchy of needs. As I am exploring new fields, I am seeing how these needs are also a key part of other competence areas' daily needs.
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?
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.
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.
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.
TestingIsTheNewBlack
Testing Is The New Black
Is this the first time you have a compliance testing challenge? It's not my first time.