Tag Archives: Quality

Agile Approaches for Building in Quality

Posted on February 11, 2021 by derkjandegrood

Next month I’ll be giving a talk at the Aginext Conference. In this presentation I will talk about Built-in Quality. Ben Linders did a nice interview with me on the topic. In the interview I explain that Quality awareness needs to … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 11, 2018 by derkjandegrood

  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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eBook: Testing and Quality in SAFe

Posted on April 26, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 derkjandegrood

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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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 →

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