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Speaker : Anna Baik
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Jumped from large company to awesome start-up BrightPearl
- Waterfall to Agile
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Why make a change?
- Avoidance of Red Tape and Beurocracy
- When process is king, customer comes a distant second
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Brightpearl
- Small startup
- Agile
- Software for small / medium
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So what is agile
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Not a monolithic process
- A number of different methodologies
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Brightpearl use SCRUM
- Iterations of 2 weeks
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What did Anna love with the different env?
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Involved early
- Seeing things grow
- Short feedback loops
- Releasing stuff
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What took longer?
- Pacing her work
- Understanding that Anna could write cards
- Getting a balance
- Stuck in a mindset of "wall" mentality
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What helped
- Rapid Software Testing Course
- Being Prepared
- Weekend Testing
- BBST Foundations
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What now?
- Company doing well
- 5 Testers, soon to be 7
- Testing is valued
- Great to get customer feedback