A Test Team's Unexpected Journey from Waterfall to Agile
summary
A test organisation abandons pure Waterfall for a hybrid agile process: Scrum drives development but is scrum encapsulated by initiation and transition phases (a homegrown water‑scrum‑fall echoed by Scott Ambler’s DAD). Testers become embedded plus independent transition team with enforced rotation. Result: fewer surprises, earlier visibility, better planning and automation opportunities; problems remain—testers resist cross‑functional hats, teams hoard testers and reporting becomes a “spaghetti” matrix, but overall delivery risk and handoff friction decrease.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12The Story
- 2:53A True Story
- 3:55Once upon a time
- 4:46A nightmare
- 6:33A twist
- 7:59The scapegoat
- 9:17Our customers
- 12:09Scrum
- 13:31Hybrid Agile
- 14:11Scrum Teams
- 16:44Testing
- 19:41The Result
- 22:05Issues
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