Workshops
Planning The Endgame
Test managers and leads are expected to predict how long they will need to test. But the elapsed time for testing will ultimately be decided, not merely by the number of hours in the schedule for the test team, but by the quality of the system availablet to test, the development team’s turnaround time for bug fixes, and the stakeholders’ appetite for risk.
It’s the whole endgame that matters: the interplay of tests, builds, bug fixes, and retests plus regression tests. But even experienced project managers can fall into the trap of planning only for testing—forgetting to take the rest of the endgame into account.
In this interactive session, I'll work with your senior test practitioners and project managers to build a credible case for the amount of testing time really needed, by using a combination of planning heuristics to model a plan for the endgame.
This workshop is most effective as a facilitated session focusing on the test execution plan for a specific project in your organization. Workshop length will depend on your organization's needs.