Agile: It's happening - are you ready?
TSG quick guide to Agile Development
Based on the Standish CHAOS report for 2009. Many traditionally developed and run projects were less than successful:

in 2008 IBM’s Scott Ambler, carried out an industry survey of Agile projects. He reported a 78% success rate*. Even if we accept that his respondents (642 of them, worldwide) define ‘success’ less strictly than those responding to the Standish survey, this seems a remarkable difference.

'Agile Testing Certification and how it could be useful'
Stuart Reid's presentation from the Agile Testing Days in Berlin which information on:
- Agile testing certification
- The demand and suppliers for it
- Agile testing courses; quality, syllabus and structure
Has your organisation:
- Moved to agile testing but is failing to reap the benefits it promised?
- Not engaged or managed stakeholders and the critical part they have to play in agile testing?
- Run a business critical software development project, but failed to deliver what was needed?
- Provided a focus for agile testing to the rest of the organisation, but are failing to do so?
- Gone agile but left testing behind?
If any of the above are the case then TSG can help. Contact us at agile@testing-solutions.com
What can TSG offer your organisation in terms of Agile testing:
Many organizations (try to) transition to agile, but frequently omit to include testing or simply fail to understand the importance of integrating it with development, and how not doing so means the method won’t work and only limited benefit will be possible. This specialist activity, helps implement and integrate agile testing in an organization so that projects can benefit from faster development, integrated working, reductions in attrition rates and greater engagement with stakeholders and confidence from the business. It typically requires that we:
- Establish systems development and testing practices in use and their relevance to agile
- Understand the gap between what is implemented and what is require
- Establish the capability of the people and practices to fulfil and integrate the roles and functions on an agile development project (which are different from those on traditional projects)
- Define the controls, measures and working practices for integration of agile testing
- Define a roadmap for implementing and/or integrating agile testing and bringing testers up to speed with working in a changed environment.
What benefits could you see from an Agile approach?
TSG has defined, implemented and trained many staff and organisations to use an integrated scrum approach based on a product backlog of user stories, developed, tested and delivered in sprints that support business need.
The approach has seen:
- Faster, more accurate delivery of functionality, with increased confidence from stakeholders
- Reduced cost of development with more effective regression activity and coverage
- Cooperative working practices and increased employee satisfaction
- The ability to recognise when a project is likely to fail much earlier in its software development life cycle

