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Category Archives: assessment
Competition and Knowledge-Sharing
In Knowledge Management Needs to be Agile, Too, I said If you put people in competition with each other *in any way*, they will have dis-incentives to share their knowledge. John, in his comment on that post, said it seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged feedback, management, transparency
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Audits and Assessments
There’s a fascinating email thread started by David Anderson about What would Agile Auditing Look Like?. Part of the discussion stems from what the definition of an audit is. Audits are about compliance to a defined process. Do we need … Continue reading
Interventions
If you haven’t read the classic Places to Intervene in a System, take a little time and do so. My colleague Don Gray has written an afterword that relates the article to software product development. I’m realizing that the way … Continue reading
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How Long Should the Testing Take?
When I do assessments, invariably someone says to me, “JR, how long should the testing really take? It takes our testers (4/5/6/30 insert your number of choice here) weeks, and we need it to take less time. Why can’t … Continue reading
A Possible Assessment Technique
In the last few weeks, I’ve received several questions about how to assess the productivity and effectiveness of testers. I’m concerned about this, because a tester’s effectiveness doesn’t just depend on the quality of the tester’s work, it depends … Continue reading
