Category Archives: Training

Gamification of the DevOpsImprovement challenge

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

Yesterday we piloted the new DevOpsImprovement game. Many DevOps teams (and that includes the PO) are struggling with balancing between Development work, operational tasks and improvements. Depending on the organisational context and the team members, there often is a focus … Continue reading →

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Tutorial on the Agile Testing Days – a brief introduction

Posted on July 19, 2018 by

I am really looking forward to host a tutorial on the Agile Testing Days this year. I will do this together with Jan Jaap Cannegieter, and with you. I you decide to participate. In order to persuade you to join … Continue reading →

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What makes the Agile tester….

Posted on December 11, 2017 by

In January I will host a session at the Spanish Test academy in Barcelona. On the program you’ll find sessions on exploratory testing, continues testing, working with Docker and Cucumber and many more. I will host a session on agile testing. … Continue reading →

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Test your roadmap

Posted on June 28, 2017 by

Within agile projects roadmaps are used to define the releases and get insight in de dependencies between the various teams that are working on the release. An example of a roadmap is given below. A roadmap is a one pager … Continue reading →

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Survival techniques for testers, beyond the T-shape tester (part 2)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

Last Wednesday (11 May) I gave a tutorial workshop at the testnet spring event. This was the similar workshop that Jan Jaap Cannegieter (see this earlier post for the results of this workshop) and I gave for the EuroSTAR conference last … Continue reading →

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Big Room Scrum battle (serious game with 400 participants)

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

January this year Valori organized a serious game for over 400 people. During the Scrum Battle participants experience the agile way of working. This video gives a impression of the simulation game that was held for over 400 people. They … Continue reading →

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Big Room Scrum Battle

Posted on February 5, 2016 by

Early January Valori hosted a big room serious game. This time we organised our Scrum Battle, agile simulation game with 44 teams. Altogether we played the game with 450+ participants.  The mood was great, the participants enthusiastic and I love the … Continue reading →

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Product Owner Game: Experience the work of the PO

Posted on November 28, 2015 by

At Valori we developed a new serious game. Previous we had only the SCRUM battle, which gives delegates insight in the SCRUM process. It is a great success, but we missed a good interactive way to learn Product Owners, Stakeholders, Business managers … Continue reading →

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Survival techniques for testers, beyond the T-shape tester

Posted on November 5, 2015 by

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 →

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Join my EXPO:QA Tutorial in Madrid

Posted on May 27, 2015 by

On 9 June (less than two weeks from now) I will providing my Tutorial on Business and stakeholder needs. You are kindly invited to join me in Madrid. You wan’t to know what we will be talking about?  On the … Continue reading →

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Testing Circus January Issue: the SCRUM Battle

Posted on January 20, 2015 by

Testing Circus is a free to download monthly International Software Testing Magazine. The magazine is subscribed by thousands of software testers worldwide. The January Issue has just been released. It contains many cool articles, among which my description of the SCRUM Battle.  The SCRUM battle … Continue reading →

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SCRUM Battle: Now you can experience the Agile way of working yourself

Posted on October 10, 2014 by

Yesterday I hosted the SCRUM Battle on the NoorderTest Conference (see my previous post: SCRUM Battle on NoorderTest 2014. Today I compiled footage from various battles into a one-minute+ impression. You can watch it here: The SCRUM battle is an ideal … Continue reading →

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CAT: Looking for enthusiastic testers that want to learn Agile

Posted on March 7, 2014 by

After an inspiring training week in February, I am glad to announce that Valori will run the Certified Agile Tester training again in May. The training will be just as interactive and instructive as the first (Check for yourself and … Continue reading →

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Presenting in English

Posted on February 12, 2014 by

Yesterday Jan Iedema and I gave presentation training for the NGO in the Hague. Normally we provide this training in Dutch (since our book is also in Dutch), but for the occasion we upgraded the slide-pack to English. As we … Continue reading →

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Certified Agile Tester

Posted on September 7, 2013 by

Yesterday, we completed the train the trainer course of the CAT training held in Potsdam.  The CAT training is a 4 day training that learns how testers can shine in agile context. With Agile a lot of traditional values are … Continue reading →

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