Amplifying Agile Quality Practices
summary
Presents a practical assessment called the Quality Practices Assessment Model that maps 10 quality aspects across four dimensions (beginning, unifying, practicing, innovating) using a radar chart and an accompanying spreadsheet and question sets (about 15 per area) to find where quality actually breaks down. Uses a 7‑person “Team Venus” case: 4–6 month releases, large defect backlog, lots of overtime; diagnosis pins the root problems on culture, development approach and test automation/tools, and teams report useful, targeted improvement actions.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Agile values and pitfalls
- 4:57Agile doesn’t guarantee quality
- 7:22Quality Practices Assessment Model
- 10:30Social quality impact
- 13:19Social and technical quality
- 16:09Technical quality mistakes
- 20:23Team Venus case study
- 21:05Four quality dimensions
- 27:46Facilitating assessments
- 34:14Setting goals and experiments
- 36:01Summary and resources
- 38:51Q&A
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