Providing Value to Agile Ceremonies as a Tester

17th May 2018
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Melissa Tondi

Head of Technology Enablement

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Talk Description
There are similarities in the implementation of Agile across companies. There is often a "one-size-fits-all" approach with Agile. But the reality is that each company has its own customs and culture that should be considered when implementing Agile for the first time or when taking the journey towards continuous improvement. Once companies adopt the "Agile Way" there is little effort to re-visit the original implementation and ensure it's making the right difference within the organization.

This Masterclass discusses the agile ceremonies we tend to focus on and shows where their long-standing use may result in inefficiencies or the wrong outcomes. Melissa then goes on to recommend ways to fix those problems.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

  • List five common areas that may be causing challenges in your overall Agile approach
  • Implement practical solutions to resolve common issues in your Agile approach
  • Check the health of a sprint in real-time
Head of Technology Enablement
Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within software testing teams. She is a frequent speaker and writer at forums focusing on the Agile, QA/QE, and DevOps spaces and is in Enablement leadership at Campminder and a Principal Consultant at Disrupt Testing, where she assists companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software—from design to delivery and everything in between. In her software testing and quality engineering careers, Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture – and uses the Greatest Common Denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways in which team members can assess, implement and report on day to day activities so the gap between need and value is as small as possible.
Head of Technology Enablement
Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within software testing teams. She is a frequent speaker and writer at forums focusing on the Agile, QA/QE, and DevOps spaces and is in Enablement leadership at Campminder and a Principal Consultant at Disrupt Testing, where she assists companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software—from design to delivery and everything in between. In her software testing and quality engineering careers, Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture – and uses the Greatest Common Denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways in which team members can assess, implement and report on day to day activities so the gap between need and value is as small as possible.
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