Category Archives: Slides
Keeping the Customer Satisfied
This week I gave a presentation at the Agile Testing Days which was held in beautiful Potsdam (Germany). In this presentation I introduce 6 things that customers want. These can be used to promote the new items that need to … Continue reading →
How Agile Coaches can Contribute to Built-in Quality
Built-in Quality is key when you want to achieve Business Agility. Yesterday I spoke at the AgiNext Conference in London. In my presentation I explained the importance of Built-in Quality, what it actually is and I introduced an approach to … Continue reading →
Keynote recording: Built-in Quality
Early March I was in Vienna for the Tesena Fest Conference. I gave a keynote on Built-in Quality. I shared challenges that we encounter during our agile transformations and linked them to quality measures that you can take on a team … Continue reading →
Amazing Tutorial on Agile Test Management
Yesterday Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I gave an amazing tutorial at the Agile testing days. In our full day tutorial we discussed the role of the test manager and how to add value in an agile environment. We discovered that … Continue reading →
Testing and Quality in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.6 version)
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 →
Masterclass Agile Testing
These are the slides of the masterclass I gave 24-1-2018 at the Barcelona Test Academy. Using an assessment we started a discussion about what it takes to be an agile tester. It was valued by many of the participants as … Continue reading →
Agile Testing Days -Trends and future in testing 2017
Today I gave a presentation at the Agile Testing Days. The room was packed and we talked about the way the testing profession in evolving. 5 years ago the Dutch Test Association published a book that described the changes in … Continue reading →
Book launch at Valori HQ
Last Thursday we launched my new book “Agile in de echte wereld- Starten met Scrum” at the Valori Office. Above a photo impression of the event where we presented the new book to our customers and people that collaborated with … Continue reading →
EuroSTAR webinar: T-shape and π-shaped testers
Last week Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I gave a webinar for EuroSTAR. We had circa a 100 participants that tuned in to learn about survival techniques for testers. In the webinar we shared the results of the workshops that we gave … Continue reading →
Survival techniques for testers, beyond the T-shape tester
Tuesday 3 November Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I gave a tutorial workshop at the EuroSTAR conference. In this wisdom of the crowd session we searched for and defined our future. Main question throughout the workshop was: How do we survive … Continue reading →
Sharing my Agile Implementation experience
During yesterdays Software Quality Conference I shared some of my experiences with implementing Agile. Implementing agile seems a lot like learning to drive. At First, all effort goes into controlling the car. But soon you discover that anticipating the traffic … Continue reading →
Implementing Test Automation, a story about changing insights and experiences
Today I gave a presentation on the Test Automation day. In this presentation I explain a simple strategy for implementing Test Automation in your organization. A simple strategy? I tell the story of my experience so far and look back … Continue reading →
Taste wheel for testers workshop
A common language to describe our system enables targeted strategy and clear reporting. Last week I gave a workshop in Norway for the Freetest conference on Mobile testing (organized by the Norwegian Computer Society) and yesterday I gave the same … Continue reading →
Mobile testing @ freetest conference
Today is the first day of the most northern conference on software testing organized by the Den Norske Dataforeningen (The Norwegian Computer Society). I will be talking about mobile testing. Not only will I list some things that you might … Continue reading →
What a day…
Yesterday the Dutch testing conference was held. I spoke with a lot of people, got some new ideas and exchanged experiences. My Colleague Egbert Bouman was nominated for the DTC excellence award and I got to do a nice presentation … Continue reading →
Derk-Jan de Grood 