Category: Agile Testing

Huddle Talk Episode 1: On Agile with Ray Arell

This episode features Ray Arell. Ray is the founder of nuCognitive,  and is the company’s principal consultant and coach. He has over  30 years experience in the software development, management and testing industry. Ray has been responsible for building and transforming a number of successful worldwide organisations. Over the past five years he has been coaching other leaders to do the same with their own teams.  He is recognised as an industry leader in large scale adoptions of Agile, lean, and complex systems, and he has delivered over 20 keynotes and talks sharing his knowledge across the globe.  Prior to nuCognitive, Ray was an engineering director/engineer at Intel Corporation where he helped deliver a number of cutting edge semiconductor products.

In this episode Ray talks about:

  • His career at Intel
  • How he Implemented Agile at Intel
  • How he Implements Agile Now
  • Dealing with Resistance to Agile in a Team
  • Why Scrum Must Die and more

 

Huddle Learn Episode 1: Do We Need Testers On Agile Teams?

Do we need testers on agile teams? It’s the same argument again and again. One side says “team members should all be able to do everything, and the programmers should do their testing and all testers should be writing code”. The other side says “No, that can’t possibly work – programmers don’t know how to test, they don’t have the right mindset”. And the debate goes on and on

To address this common question, we caught up with Janet Gregory, co-author of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. Here’s what Janet had to say…