Pre-2 :  Testers: Behind the Scenes of Every Great Project
Monday, 9:00am - 4:00pm

 
Track:

Shakespeare said it best when he wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.”   The same applies to testers. On projects testers play many roles from the project inception through project closure.
 
This full day workshop will explore the pivotal roles testers play across each phase of a project. Using collaborative exercises we will examine how testers can advocate for testing, maximize their effectiveness and most importantly become a valued source of insight for project leadership. The focus will shift from defining the role of the tester as quiet observer to an active and engaged participant throughout the entire project.

Attendees can expect to:

• Discuss the importance of relationship building with stakeholders including understanding goals, setting expectations and establishing trust;
• Explore ways to increase the participation of testing at the onset of the project and establishing the foundation for the insight testing can provide;
• Share techniques for engaging in the project planning and addressing the challenge of test estimation by uncovering the often obscured but already determined available time for testing;
• Experiment with adaptive test planning techniques to effectively adapt to changes in project scope, risk, quality or any other variety of unknowns or black swans;
• Discover ways to transform testing from a mundane and rote activity to an interactive and engaging journey of investigation, exploration, learning and discovery;
• Identify methods for increasing the value of test reporting to stakeholders including challenging traditional concepts on test measurement and metrics.

Lynn McKee

Independent Consultant, Quality Perspectives

Lynn McKee is an independent consultant with 17 years experience in the software industry and a passion for helping organizations, teams and individuals deliver valuable software. Lynn is an advocate of the software quality management practices espoused by Jerry Weinberg and provides consulting on software management, leadership and testing. Lynn is active within the software testing community by speaking at conferences, writing articles, contributing to blogs and forums. She is also a co-founder of the Weekend Testers Americas and the Calgary Perspectives on Software Testing Workshop. You can reach Lynn online at www.qualityperspectives.ca.

Nancy Kelln

Consulting Software Tester, Unimagined Testing, Inc.

An independent consultant with 13 years of diverse IT experience, Nancy enjoys working with teams that are implementing or enhancing their testing practices and provides adaptive testing approaches to both Agile and traditional testing teams. She has coached test teams in various environments and facilitated numerous local and international workshops and presentations. A co-founder of POST, Nancy is an active member of the Calgary Software Quality Discussion Group, Association for Software Testing, and the Software Test Professionals organization. Nancy and her family live in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. Connect with Nancy online at unimaginedtesting.ca or on Twitter @nkelln.