Category Archives: Training
Great Tutorial at STARWest Conference
In October Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I will join forces again and host our successful Testmanagement in Agile Tutorial again. Although we have given this tutorial several times now, we always get positive feedback and feel that it is highly … Continue reading
Virtual Agile Coach Awareness Training
Today we host the second day of our brand new Agile Coach awareness training. Together with Jeroen van Deelen, Han Niessing and Kelly Tchai I have been working hard on creating an on-line interactive training for agile coaches. After a … Continue reading
Gamification of the DevOpsImprovement challenge
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
Tutorial on the Agile Testing Days – a brief introduction
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
What makes the Agile tester….
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
Test your roadmap
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
Survival techniques for testers, beyond the T-shape tester (part 2)
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
Big Room Scrum battle (serious game with 400 participants)
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
Big Room Scrum Battle
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
Product Owner Game: Experience the work of the PO
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
Join my EXPO:QA Tutorial in Madrid
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
Testing Circus January Issue: the SCRUM Battle
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
SCRUM Battle: Now you can experience the Agile way of working yourself
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
CAT: Looking for enthusiastic testers that want to learn Agile
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
Derk-Jan de Grood 