Value, Money, and Costs: The Ultimate Common Language
summary
Argues that testing is best framed as an economic investment, running 1–3 day workshops that map managers’ monetary fears to ISO quality attributes and choose testing by ROI. Uses ISO 25010 and ISO 29119, fault‑injection/chaos, system‑integration and pentest methods, and percent‑of‑effort tracking. Cites concrete costly failures — $400M, $10B, $60B — to justify priorities, shows ensemble/shift‑left experiments that speed delivery, and reports managers who approve reallocated budgets once risks are quantified.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Technical terms losing meaning
- 3:51Engineering vs management languages
- 5:58Suboptimal testing consequences
- 6:41Economics as testing language
- 9:12Testing as risk investment
- 11:59Brainstorming risks with ISO
- 15:54Prioritizing risks by loss
- 17:37ISO 29119 risk assessment
- 19:45Testing approaches for risks
- 21:33Investment levels for testing
- 23:00Testing strategy and market signals
- 24:45Testing strategy review after incidents
- 26:12Testing costs and efficiency
- 27:15Shift-left testing benefits
- 30:49Cost of delay explained
- 32:18Testing investment principles
- 33:44Long-term testing value
- 35:08Q&A: Testing KPIs
- 38:46Q&A: Business value proof
- 41:13Q&A: Regaining trust after failure
- 42:41Q&A: Avoid over-testing
- 44:29Q&A: Shift-left adoption
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