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Choosing the Right Agile Testing Tool for Your QA Team To be truly effective, QA teams have to choose the right agile testing tools for their needs and ensure that it has the required features to ensure quality and bolster testing efforts. Sanjay Zalavadia outlines a few things to consider as you search for the best solution for your QA team. |
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With Metrics and Measurement, You Need to Shift Your Mindset Metrics are all about feedback. Similar to how a fitness tracker keeps data that allows you to optimize your workout and improve physical activity, metrics and measurement provide you with a suite of data used to advance your testing and development efforts—especially within an agile environment. |
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Collaborative, High-Functioning Teams Start with Agile Managers We often assume that management is pure overhead and adds little value. But management is necessary for teams to be successful. Teams sometimes need help creating environments where it’s easier to make the right decisions in a timely manner. A culture of delegation and trust starts with a good manager. |
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The Problem with Expectations for Agile Teams Too many people sell agile as a way to get better, faster, cheaper. But the problem with setting these high expectations for agile teams is that we too often neglect the roles of and expectations for agile managers. Managers are responsible for creating the environment in which people can deliver great work. |
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What Working at Netflix Is Like The Netflix team has to be dynamic in order to move as quickly as the demand of its audience. Because of that, the company only hires senior engineers, avoids actually sticking to process whenever possible, encourages a great deal of employee freedom, and even pushes budgets to the side. |
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