increase your team’s efficiency with kanban
DESCRIPTION
Test teams must perform a wide variety of tasks from testing new functions and performing regression tests to helping with bug fixes, producing test reports, and working on test improvements. With all these activities, it is a challenge to keep priorities straight, operate most efficiently, and clearly show stakeholders all that the team is working on. Derk-Jan de Grood shares his experiences with Kanban, a proven method for managing workflow, as a visual tool to help teams allocate resources, reduce waste, and make progress visible to all stakeholders. Learn how you can assign testers to tasks that match their expertise and how improving “flow” will reduce time-to-market and testing costs. With the Kanban process helping you manage test activities, your company’s business managers will finally understand what is happening in testing every day, and you’ll know that everyone is working on the right task to maximize value to the project.TRANSCRIPT
W13 Test Management
5/1/2013 3:00:00 PM
Increase Your Team’s Efficiency with
Kanban
Presented by:
Derk-Jan de Grood
Valori
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Derk-Jan de Grood
As a senior test consultant at Valori, Derk-Jan de Grood specializes in getting more out of testing by focusing on the value chain, business-IT alignment, and the team’s visibility. Being a passionate speaker, Derk-Jan is at home at major testing conferences where he tries to inspire people and help improve the test profession. He writes for leading test magazines, provides training, lectures, and is the author of TestGoal, Grip on IT, and the Dutch Testers Association’s jubilee book on future trends in testing. Derk-Jan lead the list of the top twenty-five most visible testers in the Netherlands. Learn more at djdegrood.wordpress.com.
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Increase Your Team’s Efficiency
with Kanban
Derk-Jan de Grood STAREast 2013
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Goal
Show you how kanban can benefit you in:
Getting testing out of crumple zone
Increasing the efficiency of your team
Better team
Increasing visibility
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Give me answers !
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Kanban
A brief introduction
Kanban
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Kanban is a method for managing
workflows and has a strong focus on reducing waste and maximizing value
Characteristics
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TOC
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Principles
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Testing for business benefit
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four situations
When bother?
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Traditional organization
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Maintenance department
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Test Center of Excellence
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SCRUM Project
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Trends that make kanban interesting
Why bother…
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Big Data
Back-end Virtualization
Security Embedded
Knowledge Base
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Virtualization
tbd Geographic
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Devices
Cloud
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Our test team is involved in the following
activities
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How do you keep
track of activities,
make sure nothing
is forgotten and
they are handled
efficiently and with
right priority
Benefits
Benefits
Testing out of crumple zone
Increase efficiency
From reactive to
steady flow
Better co-operation
Insight in competences
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The board
How to organize kanban flow
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KanBan
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Challenges 28
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How big should your work-item be?
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Preparation. Before you start !
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Preparation. Before you start !
A simple board
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Add swimming lanes Add columns
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The cards Who does …. what?
This works stimulating and makes teams
perform better and have more fun
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Wrap-up
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Wrap-up
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Factsheet
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Derk-Jan
Valori Coltbaan 4a 3439 NG NIEUWEGEIN
The Netherlands • [email protected] • +31(0)651807878
• www.valori.nl • @DerkJanDeGrood • http://djdegrood.wordpress.com
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