Resilience
Key learnings from 2024
Key learnings from directing the testing stage on test leadership and resilience testing in 2024.
Resilience
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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?
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.
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 👋. 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?