Test Beyond Quality Beyond Software

Agile Testing Day Netherlands 2015

Mike Sutton

Mike9years as a

coach

150+teams

coached

1500+people

supported

Mike SuttonAgile Coach and Improvement Partner

“I help technology organisations become more effective in meeting their business goals by applying simple and effective tools - that reduce risk, increase value and create knowledge - and by nurturing a culture of open and joyful collaboration.

21years as a developer

Mentor agile teams and their members

Helping teams develop resilience and the tools to help them self organise effectively

and own their working process responsibly.

Advise management teams and executives

Providing wide multi-industry and multi-disciplinary experience and expertise to help executives and

management teams develop modern strategies

Coach organisational effectiveness with everybody

Sharing a framework and support to help the entire

organisation develop and sustain continuous improvement and

effectiveness

I want to poke, provoke, tease and inspire.

“Work has an enormous impact on my personal growth and

my overall Joy.Show of hands, how many agree with this statement?

Every business is searchingFor a repeatable business model, product-market fit, next revenue ceiling, greater profit, next best-

thing-since-sliced-bread, great culture… For survival

The search is complexIt is uncertain, risky and requires all of our skills and passion - intelligently applied - to succeed

How does the search impact…

Leaders and leadership

Roles and accountability?How we collaborate?

Our environment?

How we choose

toolsWhat we

care about?

Risk and mitigation?

How we treat each other?

Most business decisions are guesses. Some are even educated.Who has the mindset and skills to design

experiments to test and validate assumptions?

Agile teams are a place to cultivate behaviours and cultures for a new reality

Skills, mindsets and values that are valuable beyond your team.

We operate in an uncertainty-riddled landscape

Effective agile teams are all about managing uncertainty, risk and emergence.

So, you are in a happy, agile team.You might not all get along, but you have complementary

edges and you mostly don’t want to kill each other.

Many agile software teams todayRegular cadence, given just enough to produce but not

enough to thrive.

But the rest of your organisation is in chaosAnd some might even know they are!

Our collective success is too important to be left to a few

dudes in suits

It is time for agile teams and the testing discipline to go beyond software, beyond

testing and into the organisation

Start?

What do you bring to the search?

Intelligently discovering what to

test

Designing safe-to-fail experiments

The passion to collaborate

The love of exploration

The desire to to make things better

Monitoring

Checking

Assume you are invitedForgiveness beats permission

Ask questions.Go where they lead

About Value, Flow, Quality and Joy

What value do we deliver as an organisation?

Why does it take so long to…?

How do we know we are delivering the value we think we are delivering?

What happens if we….?

What kind of organisation do we want and how will we know we are getting it? Do we know how good

something needs to be?

What does Joy mean for every single person

in my organisation?

What are we searching for, where should we

look?

Don’t do it alone One person is a “lone nut”, two are a movement.

Celebrate. Reflect. Improve

3 things just happened

What’s in it for me What’s in it for us A choice to make.

Thank you.Do good work.

Be good to work with. Seek Joy.

(no animals were hurt in the production of this keynote)

@mhsutton

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