Learning about the system
Prototype
Evaluate
Construct
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http://testers-headache.blogspot.com
Lessons
Big Organisation
Getting buy-in on different levels
Message can be lost in big organisations
Message can be diluted in big organisations
Tools
Feedback - Results vs Indicators
Overcoming sticking points
Traps - tools & automated tests
Awareness - team & product status
Strategy
Awareness
Awareness issues
Broken windows - reacting
Indicators
"Delivery readiness"
Concensus
Framing & Info
- Gause & Weinberg
- Russo & Schoemaker
- Kahneman & Tversky
Problem Picture
FICL
- Patterson, Grenny, David, Ron McMillan, Switzler
- Hunt
Different
perspectives
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
Learning
References
- Are Your Lights On? Gause, Weinberg
- QSM vol III; Weinberg
- Decision Traps; Russo, Schoemaker
- How to Solve It; Polya
- Thinking, Fast and Slow; Kahneman
- Influencer; Patterson, Grenny, David, Ron McMillan, Switzler
- How to Solve it
- Conway heuristic
Concensus
Framing & Info
Problem Picture
FICL
- Are your lights on?
- QSM III
- Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
Different
perspectives
Learning
Experiences with introducing CI into many teams
Feedback
Visibility
Awareness
Mindset
What do we see?
Broken Windows
Hidden Costs
"It was broken when I got it"
Analysis becomes Deflecting Attention
Cost of analysis
Cost re-analysis
Cost of reduced testing
Is this cost efficient?
Situational /
Organisational
Mechanics
How did it look?
Re-use existing scripts / mechanisms
Triggers for code building
Triggers for test scripts
End-2-End tests
Component / unit tests
Stability runs
Functional tests
Process & Procedures exist
Don't re-invent the wheel!
Prototype -> Evaluate -> Construct
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Merry-go-round
@YorkyAbroad
http://testers-headache.blogspot.com
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More Mindset
Many
teams
&
Complex
Features
=>
Complex
system
Picture of the whole system
The software
The teams
The end product
The process structures
The organisational structures
Other indicators...
Other sources?
Daily stand-ups
Email / corridor chat
Weekly reports
Difficult
to
test
Slow
feedback
Delivery Readiness Monitor
Heartbeat vs Diagnosis
Pulse -> enough to declare fitness?
Indicators vs Assessment!!!!
Feedback - Results vs Indicators
Indicators
People
Scripts
Strategy
Trial results
Overcoming sticking points
Refine
New needs
Radiate
Radiators
Package
What we did
Traps - tools & automated tests
Awareness - team & product status