Collaboration Archives - JitGo Jitesh Gosai Tester, Speaker, Presenter

Why Don't Teams Go For Incremental Improvements by @JitGo

Incremental improvements: Why don’t teams do it more?

Agile, Collaboration, incremental improvements, leadership, questions

(Reading time: 10 minutes) I’ve been working with a lot of different engineering teams over the years and there has been a strong tendency for them to avoid incremental improvements and instead go for bigger changes. There are many reasons…

The risk with direct questions

Agile, Collaboration, feedback, leadership, psychological safety, questions, relationships, trust

The risk with the direct question is that the person being asked could assume intent within the question. E.g. asking what risk there in this release could be assumed that you think there is a risk in the release or that you don’t trust the…

Reducing Uncertainty in Software Delivery

Agile, Automation, Collaboration, DevOps, Quality Awareness, talks

A key theme that I’m seeing from these talks is that they are spending a lot of effort on learning from failure. Either by analysing ones that have happened in production or actively encouraging teams to cause failures.

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…

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Three things of 2020

Collaboration, feedback, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety, Tips

3 minute read Below are three things that when I reflect back on 2020 that stand out to me. I’ve purposely not mentioned COVID because I think this is one thing that all of us would have on our list so didn't think there was anything…

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…

Picture of a takeaways at night in Margate

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…

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…

Building confidence with automation

Automation, Collaboration, documentation, testability, Testing, Tips

For automation to be accepted and therefore successful people need to feel confident in the process, but how do you do that for test automation? "Show" them the process or build trust with the person doing the work.