process improvement

How to Eat an Elephant: Tips for Facilitating Test Process Improvement

How do you eat an elephant? The answer is, of course, “One bite at a time.” When working on improving a process, you need to create your backlog of initiatives, prioritize them, and identify the initiatives that can be implemented easily. Give the feeling of progress … and then take it in bites.

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Gitte Ottosen
Quick Tips to Kick-Start Accessibility Testing

Implementing accessibility testing in your organization requires efficiency, accuracy, and a toolbox of smart practices. A focus on proper infrastructure, resources, and software testing tools is an important step. Read on for some tips on performing a comprehensive accessibility testing effort.

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Amit Bhatt
How to Tell if Your Team Is Really Agile

Agile teams run like a well-oiled machine, so it’s important to take a look at your group and assess just how agile it really is. What fixable problems might you be experiencing that are jamming up the system, causing the process to run slower than it needs to?

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Josiah Renaudin
When to Disclose Bad News to Employees

An issue that often arises in organizational change is when to tell employees about something they're likely to view as bad news. Sometimes managers are forced to keep bad news to themselves, but if that's not the case, it's better—and more honest—from the employees' perspective to share it earlier.

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Naomi Karten
The Challenge of Being the Intermediary

Within every team, people have different methods of tackling problems. Some strive to solve a problem within its bounds, while on the other end of the spectrum, others redefine the problem. Smack in the middle: the intermediary. Though it's tough, this role is important in bridging the two sides.

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Pam Morgan
Overcome DevOps Adoption Barriers to Accelerate Software Delivery

Every team can improve its delivery speed. When teams increase agility and reduce time to market by adopting agile software development practices, DevOps principles, and cloud self-service platforms, they choose a development and operations environment that accelerates software delivery.

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Chris Haddad
Pair Testing—A Best Practice to Enhance Accessibility Test Coverage

Pairing testers with disabilities with nondisabled testers yields valuable results. It's a constructive approach to enhance test coverage because there are functions of an application that either a visually impaired tester or a sighted tester may miss on his own, but together they find more defects.

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Sunil Dangwal
Which Is More Important for Development—Software or Method?

As project management software continues to gain popularity, which is more important—software or method? You rarely see a case study where a new tool or process didn’t have an immediate or fantastic effect, so how do you separate the signal from the noise and find the right solution for your team?

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Charles Settles