Tag Archives: agile testing

Impression of the online STAREast Tutorial on Test Management in Agile

Posted on May 6, 2020 by derkjandegrood

Monday 4th of May I gave a full day tutorial on Test Management in Agile. This year STAREast went virtual, so I had to rebuild the tutorial to make it suitable for online participation. I think we (the 30+ participants … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Test management, Video | Tagged Activities, Added value, agile test strategy, agile testing, distributed teams, Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Orlando, Roles of the Test Manager, SAFe 4.6, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Squerist, STAREast, test management, Virtual Conference | Leave a comment

Rik and I talking about our contribution to Tesena Fest in Vienna

Posted on February 21, 2020 by derkjandegrood

Watch this video and find out what my presentation and Rik Marselis’ workshop will be about. We will both be at the Tesena Fest in Vienna on the 5th of March. The question is where will you be? We hope … Continue reading →

Posted in Testing | Tagged agile testing, Built-In quality, ISTQB, PCT, Rik Marselis, Sogeti, Squerist, Tesena fest | Leave a comment

Keynote at Tenesa fest Vienna

Posted on November 21, 2019 by derkjandegrood

I am excited to announce that I will be keynote speaker at Tesena Fest Vienna on March 5th 2020. I’ll be talking about Built-in Quality, a topic that I am really enthusiastic about. I believe it is a topic that … Continue reading →

Posted in Testing | Tagged agile testing, Built-In quality, Keynote, Tenesa fest, Vienna | Leave a comment

The Challenges Ahead- Keynote at the AgileTD 2019

Posted on November 5, 2019 by derkjandegrood

This week Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I had the honour to present a keynote at the Agile Testing Days in Potsdam. In our keynote “The challenges ahead we discussed trends that we see around us and how these challenge us. … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Agile Testing Days, Conferences, JuBoCo, Testing | Tagged agile testing, AgileTD, future and trends in testing”, Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Keynote, Potsdam, Slides, Squerist, trends and future | Leave a comment

Test management in Agile – Full day tutorial at the TestExpo Denmark

Posted on March 6, 2019 by derkjandegrood

On May 22nd, you will get a unique possibility to enhance your test managers skill set within Agile environments. Together with Jan Jaap Cannegieter I will host the full day tutorial the day before TestExpo™ Conference in Denmark. We made a … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Conferences, Test management | Tagged AGILE, agile testing, Agile Testing Days, Capgemini, Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Squerist, test management, TestExpo, Tutorial, Valori | Leave a comment

Amazing Tutorial on Agile Test Management

Posted on November 13, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Conferences, Slides | Tagged agile testing, AgileTD, Build Quality In, derk-jan de grood, enabling teams, Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Potsdam, roles, safe, Squerist, test management, test strategy, Tutorial, Valori | 2 Comments

Keynote: Testing and Quality in the SAFe framework

Posted on October 3, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Scaling Agile, Test management, Testing | Tagged agile testing, Embedding Quality and testing in the SAFe framework, Keynote, Mette Bruhn-Pedersen, safe, SAFe Journey, Scaling Agile, testnet | Leave a comment

Cover Article Bits & Chips – Ensuring quality when scaling agile

Posted on September 28, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Bits & Chips, Scaling Agile | Tagged agile test strategy, agile testing, agilescaling, Bits&Chips, Embedding Quality and testing in the SAFe framework, Mette Bruhn-Pedersen, safe, Scaling Agile | 3 Comments

The 23nd Testing Retreat was awesome !

Posted on September 27, 2018 by derkjandegrood

This weekend I spent my time in together with 14 peers from the profession. We gathered to share our experiences and war stories, to benchmark opinions and discus trends in the testing Profession. The Testing Retreat is an international peer conference … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences | Tagged agile testing, AI, blackchain, failure modes, lean, peer conference, testing retreat, Trends | Leave a comment

Transforming testing to fit modern development- Agile testing

Posted on September 13, 2018 by derkjandegrood

On 12 September Andreas Prins and I gave two presentation on the TestNet session night. The theme of the event was: Transforming testing to fit modern development. Andreas identified various rhythms (or wavelengths) in the SDLC and explained the automation … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Conferences, Test management, testnet | Tagged agile test strategy, agile testing, Andreas Prins, Automation, Modern Software development, survey, Testing, testnet, Valori, War story, xebialabs | Leave a comment

Transforming towards modern development

Posted on August 31, 2018 by derkjandegrood

On 12 september TestNet is organising an event called “Transforming towards modern development”: Andreas Prins (VP Product Development @XebiaLabs) will talk about the different faces of testing in DevOps. We all know testing is an ever recurring theme, but to … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Testing, testnet | Tagged agile software development, agile testing, Andreas Prins, testnet, xebialabs | Leave a comment

Tutorial on the Agile Testing Days – a brief introduction

Posted on July 19, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Test management, Testing, Training, Video | Tagged agile testing, Agile Testing Days, test documentation, test management roles, test planning, test strategy, What makes me an agile tester | 3 Comments

Masterclass Agile Testing

Posted on January 26, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Expo:QA, Slides, Testing | Tagged agile software development, Agile Tester, agile testing, Expo:QA, nexo:qa, self assesment, Test Academy, testacademy18 | Leave a comment

What makes the Agile tester….

Posted on December 11, 2017 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Expo:QA, Testing, Training, Video | Tagged agile testing, Test Academy, What makes me an agile tester, workshop | Leave a comment

Refinement as a quality enabler-lessons learned in an agile sales environment

Posted on November 1, 2017 by derkjandegrood

I currently work as an Agile coach in a sales environment. A commercial environment differs from a general IT setting and applying agile in this volatile environment brings its own challenges. Fortunately, when you start translating these challenges to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile in de Echte Wereld, Bits & Chips, SCRUM | Tagged Agile coaching, Agile in Sales, agile testing, Bits&Chips, Quality, refinement, Validation | Leave a comment