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Building a successful team – Part 3 – Creating an environment for excellence
You have a team culture and have brought in people with the rights skills and team fit to make it all happen, however that doesn’t mean...
Craig Risi
Jun 4, 20184 min read


Building a successful team – Part 2 – Choosing your successful team
It perhaps should go without saying that recruitment is one of, if not the most important aspect of any company. The type of talent you...
Craig Risi
May 24, 20183 min read


Building a successful team – Part 1 – Identifying purpose and culture
We can talk a lot about winning strategies and architectures that can be implemented for a company to achieve success in the software...
Craig Risi
May 16, 20186 min read


Making the pieces of your microservices testing puzzle fit
Creating a microservices ecosystem is definitely the way of the future and allows for faster development and expansion of complex and...
Craig Risi
Apr 24, 20183 min read


Is there a need for commercial testing tools?
Many years ago, if any company wanted to automate their set of test cases, the only real options were expensive tools which few companies...
Craig Risi
Apr 9, 20183 min read


A little governance is a good thing
When it comes to strategies for working with many different agile development teams, there are often two chains of thought – full...
Craig Risi
Mar 22, 20184 min read


Why Building Software is like running a marathon
For those that know me personally, they will know that along with software development and writing, one of my other big passions is...
Craig Risi
Mar 7, 20184 min read


Dealing with your debt problem
We can spend an incredible amount of time on the topic of financial debt and how to manage it correctly or even better yet, avoid it...
Craig Risi
Feb 20, 20183 min read


Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 2
For part two of my Agile metrics section (you can read part 1 here), I want to focus on metrics that are testing specific. These are a...
Craig Risi
Feb 7, 20183 min read


Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 1
I have written before about how it’s important that we don’t rely on metrics exclusively to make decisions, but rather use the data in...
Craig Risi
Jan 30, 20183 min read
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