Whenever I’m asked for my top career-building tip, my answer is: Build relationships. Throughout my own career, whenever I’ve started a new job, I’ve started getting to know people both inside and outside of my team. For example, as soon as I started my last full time job, I booked 1:1s with managers of the […]| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
A book explaining how to look at nature's edges and boundaries to learn how to identify and grow new relationships and improve organizations| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
Around seven years ago, my delivery team was tasked with moving from every two weeks to twice-weekly deploys to production. Given that we didn’t always succeed with delivering on a two-week cadence, the journey was not going well! I reached out to two people whose teams were practicing continuous delivery: Abby Bangser and Ashley Hunsberger. […]| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
The evolution of our Agile Testing Days tutorial to apply the holistic testing model and succeed with continuous delivery| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
More than ever, we testing and quality professionals need to be quality leaders for our teams. The job title or role doesn’t matter, competencies and energy to influence do. Too many “agile” teams still struggle along in a mini waterfall. Testers may be embedded on cross-functional teams, but developers still throw testing to the testers […] The post Some ways we can lead for quality appeared first on Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin.| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
“More than one person doing the same task? Crazy” is what I have often heard when I tell people about working in pairs and ensembles (aka mob programming and software teaming). Surely two people, each working on a different task or user story, gets more work done in the same amount of time. It’s hard […]| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
Yves Hanoulle and Lisa Crispin discuss testing, agile, donkeys, sharing solutions with the community, problem-solving with the community, more| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin
Pair programming and pair testing are leading practices. Pair presenting has many benefits too. It helps me learn, it helps with diversity| Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin