Category Archives: Scaling Agile

The role of the agile coach in the 3rd wave of Agile

Posted on January 14, 2020 by

Bits & Chips published the first part of my new article on agile transformations. Analysing the various organizations I’ve worked with, I distinguish three separate waves, each with its own challenges and scope. Understand the three waves of agile enables … Continue reading →

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The 24th Testing Retreat was Awesome

Posted on September 9, 2019 by

The Testing Retreat is an international peer conference that aims to discuss relevant test topics and inspire its participants. During this 24th edition we had 13 participants from the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Poland, Denmark and even the USA. During normal … Continue reading →

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The Relevance of Built in Quality

Posted on August 1, 2019 by

With Valori we published a new eBook in the series on Digital transformation. This publication is a follow up on the trend report that was released earlier this year. In this previous ebook we described disruptive trends and explained why … Continue reading →

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How to Incorporate Testing in a SAFe Development Process.

Posted on July 29, 2019 by

I stumbled on an interesting webinar by 321Gang.com on how to incorporate testing on the various levels in the SAFe framework. Wade Towles explains that Built-In quality is one of the Scaled Agile Framework’s (SAFe) four Core Values and a … Continue reading →

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SIG on Quality in SAFe: Where should we put the quality responsibility?

Posted on July 17, 2019 by

Yesterday we had another of our Quality in SAFe meetings. The Special Interest Group is founded by TestNet and aims to define where quality and testing can be mounted into scaled agile organisations. Yesterday we had an interesting discussion on … Continue reading →

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SQMag published our article on Testing And Quality in SAFe

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

Proud to share the latest copy of SQmag with you. SQ mag is dedicated to creative software developers, testers and visionaries. For their 5th edition the editorial team put together amazing interviews with powerful leaders of software testing industry, interesting … Continue reading →

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Testing and Quality in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.6 version)

Posted on October 11, 2018 by

  Last night Mette and I presented the closing keynote of the TestNet Fall Event. In our keynote we shared our ideas on how the embed Quality and Testing in Scaled Agile Environments. Ever since we are working on this … Continue reading →

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Keynote: Testing and Quality in the SAFe framework

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

Less than a week to go! On 10 October Mette Bruhn-Pedersen and I will give a keynote presentation on the testnet conference. Proud to be giving a keynote on this great event and enthusiastic about sharing the stage with Mette.  In … Continue reading →

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Cover Article Bits & Chips – Ensuring quality when scaling agile

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Proud to see that the article I wrote with Mette Bruhn-Pedersen on quality in scaled agile environments is the cover article of the september Issue of Bits & Chips magazine. The article gives an insight in what the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) … Continue reading →

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A Game Called Scaling

Posted on September 3, 2018 by

Scaling agile is becoming a hot topic.  Furthermore organizations more and more start to understand that business agility and responsiveness is a key factor to survive and stay ahead of their competitors. In order to yield value, the work of single … Continue reading →

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An Agile Game called Scaling

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

In May this year Valori piloted a serious game in which participants experience the challenges of inter-team collaboration and gain insight in the various scaling agile frameworks. Eric van de Mark, guild lead of the agile guild at Valori, explains: … Continue reading →

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There is still need for test management in Agile but it is done differently

Posted on May 14, 2018 by

Jeffery Payne wrote a nice blog on agile test management. In this blog he states that agile opens up a lot of career opportunities as the test manager roles becomes more strategic in agile context. “Unfortunately, many test managers try to … Continue reading →

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eBook: Testing and Quality in SAFe

Posted on April 26, 2018 by

In this new 4000 word free eBook Mette Bruhn-Pedersen and I deep dive into quality and the SAFe framework. Although the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) offers a lot of detailed descriptions, it is not very elaborate on how testing and … Continue reading →

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Verankering in organisatie cruciaal voor welslagen Agile

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

For Bits&Chips magazine I wrote an article about successful agile adoptions. In the article I state that embedding the agile processes and mind-set in the rest of the organization is crucial for its success. I refer to Jeff Sutherland’s Aggressive … Continue reading →

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Scaling Agile – a workshop to get to know the frameworks

Posted on April 11, 2018 by

Last Monday we organised an interactive session about scaling agile. During this session we compared some of the scaling agile frameworks and we discuss the challenges that we encounter when we scale up our agile. What problems are introduced when … Continue reading →

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