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Our Future AI Overlord’s Take on Agile

Our Future AI Overlord’s Take on Agile ChatGPT is one of those things I see popping up more and more in my newsfeed and various social media platforms. Out of morbid curiosity about the potential benevolence of our future AI overlords, I decided to see what it had to say about agile. I typed in the following prompt: “Briefly describe how to successfully implement an agile transformation.” I was pleasantly surprised by the AI’s response. Below are the five keys to a successful agile...

Agile Mindset: The Biggest Impediment to...

Agile Mindset: The Biggest Impediment to... The 2022 Agile Coaching Report sat in my inbox for almost two months until I finally reviewed it in detail a few days ago. Several areas were worthy of a deeper dive, but one particularly struck me. The report's preface reads: "Notably, coaches believe the biggest impact they are making is in shifting an organization towards an agile mindset and culture. Interestingly, they also find this to be the most challenging shift to make and one of the biggest...

Agile Mastery Begins with Personal Mastery

Are You the Ideal Candidate to Lead Agile Change? The concept of Agile tends to be overrun with buzzwords, but the key is truly about focusing on one thing--Having the right mindset. Before someone can become an agile master, it’s important for them to take a step back and determine if they are willing to become a leader of change.

Integrating Performance Testing into your DevOps Pipeline

The Typical CI/CD Pipeline What comes to mind when you think of a mature CI/CD pipeline? Many people think of an automated process consisting of build, test, and deploy stages. Yet, there is always room for improvement, and there are useful quality steps many organizations tend to overlook. Let's focus on the testing stage of this process. What kinds of tests should be run during this stage? Perhaps a mixture of unit testing, API testing, and UI testing? It’s also likely there’d be some...

ADHD, Accessibility, and Me

I always struggled in school as far back as I can remember. Not in every subject though. I thrived in science, computers, and art and was often referred to as a daydreamer, quirky, or creative kid in class. Fast forward a bit where I spent most of my 20s in and out of doctors’ offices for my mental and physical health. Attempting a BFA in Graphic Design, living on my own, working 2 part-time jobs…it was too much. I didn’t understand why everything seemed so overwhelming. What was I doing...

Three Things Not to Worry about in your Digital Transformation

A common question for leadership is… What keeps you up at night? I hear it asked all the time. And the reactions run the gamut from thoughtful and deeply reflective to reactive and highly emotional. One of the common factors I nearly always hear is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Which is why I wanted to share this article with leaders considering or engaging in a Digital Transformation. I’ll begin with three things that are often misconstrued and cause sleeplessness on the part of many...

Will Machine Learning and AI Replace Manual Testers?

If you read mylast blog, you might remember that I mentioned thatsome people thought that Agile had killed QA. Well, here we are again. In this blog, we are talking about the possible demise of another aspect of traditional testing. This time the aggressors areMachine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The victim is manual testing.Will Machine Learning and AI replace manual testers?The short answer is no. The longer answer is heck, no! My money is on manual testers continuing to...

QA Process in Agile: Avoiding Silos, Pro Whole-Team Approach

Who is Responsible for Software Quality in Agile? The QA process in agile differs greatly from QA in traditional testing, such as in Waterfall.Agilehas changed the way we think of software quality. In fact,I have read rumblings in the blogosphere that Agile has killed QA.I promise youQuality Assuranceis alive and well on agile teams.It just looks different than what most of us are used to. I think people who have promoted the “death” of QA in agile are not looking closely enough at...