Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM
Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM
Enabling Teams to Improve
About the Book
This book is intended for consultants, facilitators, delivery teams or organizations who are interested in determining where their team(s) stand from an agile quality practices perspective.
It provides a deeper view of what it means to truly deliver successfully in an agile way. Janet and Selena introduce a quality practices assessment model (QPAM) that considers dimensions and quality aspects for behaviours and practices within teams and organizations. Consultants, coaches, managers, and even team members learn what high quality looks like for feedback loops, testing, code quality, culture, and more.
The reader is invited to dig deep to reflect on the quality of their products as well as the quality of a team's agile processes and those of the entire organization. The model enables teams to assess where they are, and what practices they may want to improve.
Without quality, there is no value.” ~Selena
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Table of Contents
- Praise for Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM
- Foreword by Alan Page
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- The journey
- The model
- The book: who it’s for, and how to read it
- Part 1 - Foundations
- Chapter 1 - The Quality Aspects Introduced
- Feedback Loops
- Culture
- Learning & Improvement
- Development Approach
- Quality & Test Ownership
- Testing Breadth
- Code Quality & Technical Debt
- Automation & Tools
- Deployment Pipeline
- Defect Management
- Summary
- Chapter 2 - The Dimensions Introduced
- Beginning
- Unifying
- Practicing
- Innovating
- Summary
- Part 2 - Quality Aspects and Practices in Detail
- Chapter 3 - Feedback Loops
- Within the delivery team
- Customers, stakeholders, and the delivery team
- Leadership and the delivery team
- Summary
- Chapter 4 - Culture
- Psychological safety
- Quality culture
- Working hours of a team
- Summary
- Chapter 5 - Learning and Improvement
- Self-directed learning
- Conferences and training
- Sharing
- Retrospectives
- Summary
- Chapter 6 - Development Approach
- Team makeup
- Quality mindset
- Agile framework practices
- Feature and story prioritization
- Story understanding
- Definition of Done (DoD)
- Release to production
- Summary
- Chapter 7 - Quality and Test Ownership
- Quality understanding
- Test creation
- Test review
- Test execution
- Test failure follow-ups
- Data ownership
- Summary
- Chapter 8 - Testing Breadth
- Test strategy / approach
- Testing techniques used
- Quality attributes
- User acceptance testing (UAT)
- Test coverage & reporting
- Summary
- Chapter 9 - Code Quality and Technical Debt
- Unit testing
- Code maintenance
- Standards
- Summary
- Chapter 10 - Test Automation and Tools
- Automating functional tests
- Automating quality attribute tests
- Unit testing / test-driven development (TDD)
- Tools
- Summary
- Chapter 11 - Deployment Pipeline
- Automation - test suites in CI and infrastructure
- Team engagement in the process
- Metrics
- Release strategy
- Monitoring and observability
- Summary
- Chapter 12 - Defect Management
- Defect reporting
- Defect fixing
- Defect triages
- Summary
- Part 3 - The Dimensions in Detail
- Chapter 13 - Beginning Dimension
- Chapter 14 - Unifying Dimension
- Chapter 15 - Practicing Dimension
- Chapter 16 - Innovating Dimension
- Part 4 - Next Steps
- Chapter 17 - Conducting a Quality Assessment
- Gathering Information
- Preparing for the Assessment
- Conducting the Assessment
- Collating the Information
- Reporting the Results
- Follow-up
- Chapter 18 - Your Quality Journey
- Next Steps
- Glossary
- Resources
- Authors
- Janet Gregory
- Selena Delesie
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