Team management is the process of organizing a team of individual contributors. Alternatively, team management is the set of individuals who organize teams of individual contributions. Contrast with [tag:test-management].
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Who is ultimately responsible for issues that are found after software is released?
in the context of a good practice in context on how to perform a no blame post mortem review, with a view to process improvement.
If a major issue is found in an application after it has been ...
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Bug hunts and possible alternatives?
Recently, our QA department has been running bug hunts. Once a sprint all the teams do 10 min demos then they spend the whole day submitting bugs for a feature getting ready for release. They've been ...
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Good resources for building a QA team
Our corporation has, up until this point, largely lacked a 'quality mentality' of any kind. From no testers, they went to two testers - but 5 or 6 product teams still rely on a mix of developer and ...
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What are the pros and cons of a testing team having a lead vs having a manager?
Given that a lead (at least in my employer's view) would be a highly technically experienced person who also does administrative duties and a manager would be more experienced with management and less ...
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What factors do you consider when putting together a dept training plan?
I'm currently putting together a more formal training syllabus/plan for the testers on our team. Whilst on-the-job coaching has served us pretty well so far (helped by the fact that everyone on the ...
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What would be the best roles and assignments for a developer in a QA team?
How can a developer that joins a QA team give the help that has the biggest impact and which are the best assignments for him that would most benefit the team?
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Testers Performance Indicators / Metrics
What are the key performance indicators which you all are using in your company with respect to testers? As with any metric it can easily be skewed as testers and developers will often play to the ...
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Test team names
Has anyone found a name for a software testing team that they think really communicates our role well? Our team is brainstorming ideas right now, and I know this is something my last team struggled ...
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Should a scrum be any different for testers from multiple teams?
I am about to start managing a team of testers within a company. Each tester is on a different team, one tester per team. For example, one tester is on the database team, another on the software ...
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Fostering teamwork in a distributed organization
What techniques have you used successfully to promote teamwork between developers and testers who are geographically dispersed?
Here is some context. This morning I talked with someone who works for ...
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How to get global teams to test smoothly on a different parts of the system?
I would like to seek for your valued opinions.
How do you get global teams (such as US, China, Korea, Singapore, Europe and Australia) which work on and are responsible for different parts of the ...
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Dedicated or cross projects test team?
We are recruiting test engineers to two existing projects, that up until now had a single test engineer juggling between them.
The projects are not expected to grow significantly in the near future, ...
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How is the QA org chart across organisations? [closed]
Is QA org a separate vertical operating across different portfolios or is it distributed in each portfolio and detached from other portfolios in the same organisation ?
