tag:calagator.org,2005:/events/searchCalagator: Events tagged with: adoption2014-02-04T11:45:25-08:00tag:calagator.org,2005:Calagator::Event/12504655402014-01-16T17:04:49-08:002014-02-04T11:45:25-08:00Agile PDX Evening: The Role of QA in Scrum - Leveraging Agile for Defect PreventionWednesday, February 19, 2014 from 6:30-8:15pm at Puppethttp://calagator.org/events/12504655402014-02-19T18:30:00-08:002014-02-19T20:15:00-08:00<div class="vevent">
<h1 class="summary">Agile PDX Evening: The Role of QA in Scrum - Leveraging Agile for Defect Prevention</h1>
<div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-02-19T18:30:00" datetime="2014-02-19T18:30:00">Wednesday, February 19, 2014 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-02-19T20:15:00" datetime="2014-02-19T20:15:00">8:15pm</time></div>
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<p>The key to successful adoption of any development methodology is a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each team member within that framework. As agile continues its rapid adoption, it’s essential to define the role of QA in Scrum as concretely as we’ve defined the other team roles. <br>
Agile methodology gives QA an opportunity for broader and deeper involvement in the software development lifecycle, enabling us more effectively to ensure quality, not by finding defects, but by preventing the introduction of defects in the first place. Because quality starts with the user story, QA can drive defect prevention by asking key questions of product owners during requirements definition. We can ensure that comprehensive acceptance criteria are in place, to drive high quality development, testing, and story acceptance. We can also ask technical questions of developers. This results in more thoroughly defined user stories and prompts developers to consider additional issues, and avoid pitfalls in advance of implementation. Finally, to prevent the steady growth of technical debt, we must remind scrum masters to plan story points for fixing both known and unknown defects as part of every sprint. This presentation will teach you how to leverage Agile within your organization to see immediate improvements in the quality of your software delivery.</p>
<p>About the speaker...
Karen Ascheim Wysopal has been in software QA for over 20 years, in roles including tester, release manager, software engineer, test automation engineer, and 8 years as QA manager. She’s spent the past five years at Hewlett Packard, and currently heads Quality & PMO in the Software and Web Services organization, overseeing HPConnected.com, ePrintcenter.com, and related HP web-connected print technologies. She was a leader in the organization’s transition to Agile last year. Karen has presented at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. Her professional passions are building high functioning innovative teams from the ground up, defining processes that encompass a holistic approach to quality, and speaking on best practices to foster improvements across the industry. She can’t seem to stop breaking software.</p>
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<p><a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/adoption">adoption</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/agile">agile</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/agilepdx">agilepdx</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/qa">qa</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/quality">quality</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/quality assurance">quality assurance</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/teams">teams</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/testers">testers</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/testing">testing</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/transition">transition</a></p>
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This item was added directly to Calagator <br /><strong>Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 5:04pm</strong> and last updated <br /><strong>Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 11:45am</strong>.
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