Ash_Winter-DEWT7_V1

Ash WinterShort stuff here:

@northern_tester

Long stuff here:

#DEWT

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Local

Optimisation

• “Reviewing testing capability independently of other aspects of an organisation is often like moving deckchairs on the Titanic*”

I was happy…

• Reviewing

• Interviewing

• Strategising

Started seeing signs…

• Few talked about testing

• Structural Constraints

• Too much WIP

• No Product vision

A Teaching Hospital• Awesome ward

dashboard product

• Negative process

== negative

attitude

• Testing as a

symptom

• Recommended

balanced testing

strategy

When I returned…

• More (of

our)

consultants

• Minor local

testing

improvements

• Same pain

existed

Next time…

• Consider the system

• Root causes

• Options not solutions

Book Publisher

• Great books, bad software

• 3rd Parties

• Wanted more consultants to

solve their

consulting

problem

I recommended…• Deep system changes for external

services…

• Not more consultants…

• Time to celebrate a job well

done?

New directions…

• Less sales that way

• I quit• Deeper into systems thinking

• Nomadic since

Questions

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