Agile Archives - JitGo Jitesh Gosai Tester, Speaker, Presenter

Scales of Collaboration

Agile, Collaboration, feedback, leadership, management, visulisation

The scales of collaboration can help you and your teams to work more effectively by improve your collaboration. It allows you to measure how you are currently collaborating and what you can do to improve its effectiveness. But what's wrong with our current approach and how do you use the scale?

Why is psychological safety important to software engineering teams?

Agile, Collaboration, complex work, leadership, management, psychological safety

4 minute read Before you can answer this question you need to know what psychological safety is. Amy Edmondson in her book The Fearless Organisation describes it as: The belief that the work environment is safe for interpersonal…

Foundations of great teams? Start with relationships

Agile, Collaboration, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety

4 mins reading time tl;dr: check out my miro model to get the key points. Good informal relationships are they key to better collaboration https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_khGWgWc=/ Over the last couple of years I've started to see…

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My biggest takeaways from AgileTD 2020: The future of testers isn’t in automation or testing

Agile, Collaboration, Kanban, leaders, leadership, links, psychological safety, Quality Awareness, talks, Test automation, testability, Tips, TOC, videos

I was lucky enough to speak at AgileTD this year and also attend some of the talks. These are my main takeaways from the conference based on the talks that I was able to make. My confirmation bias sense is tingling with this but… The…

August - Toread

Agile, code coverage, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips

31st August 📻 How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People? If you manage people then this podcast is worth a listen. Having a better understanding of why we compare ourselves to others (social creatures living in hierarchical structures) and…

How Falling Behind Can Get You Ahead

Agile, links, Reading, talks, videos

“Jack of all trades, master of none,” the saying goes. But it is culturally telling that we have chopped off the ending: “…but oftentimes better than master of one.”

July - Toread

Agile, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips

At the intersection of software, technology and people What is this? Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of the links…

Future of testers: somewhere between users, teams and businesses

Agile, Collaboration, Quality Awareness, testability, Testing

3 minute read I've been thinking a lot recently about what the future of the testers role could look like. Especially in teams that not only fully embrace CI/CD or DevOps but actually get some way towards implementing the ideas behind the…

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What do testers do next?

Agile, QA, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Testing

If the perceived value of testers is just to test the changes made by the development team then the future of the testers role looks bleak but could it be more than this?

Agile Manchester 2020: Testers Edition

Agile, Reading, talks, Testing, Tips

I’ve always found that tester representation at agile conferences to be lacking. It’s a bit like it doesn’t have the word test in the titles so it’s not for me. Personally I’ve always found a treasure trove of information from talks…