By: Michael Hackett

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Organization: LogiGear Corp

Title: Sr Vice President

Presentation Description:

Testing is often looked upon by many as an unmanageable, unpredictable, unorganized practice with little structure. It is common to hear questions or complaints from development such as:

• What is testing doing?
• Testing takes too long
• Testers have negative attitudes

Testers know that these complaints and questions are often unfair and untrue. Setting aside the development/testing debate, there can always be room for improvement. The first step in improving strategy and turning a test team into a higher performance test team is getting a grasp on where you are now! You want to know:

• What testing is effective?
• Are we testing the right things at the right time?
• Do we need a staffing upgrade?
• What training does our team need?
• How does the product team value the test effort?

In this session we provide a framework for assessing your team, including: how to plan for an assessment, how to execute the assessment and judge your current performance, what to do with the information, and how to chart an improvement plan toward higher performance.