SPaMCAST 52 - Lisa Crispin, Agile Testing, Change Checklist Part Two

Published: Feb. 8, 2009, 10 p.m.

b'Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world. Lisa joined her first agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. Since 2003, she\'s been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. For more about Lisa"s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com.Join the SPaMCAST\\u2019s community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!!\\xa0 http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay is titled "A Really Simple Checklist for Change Readiness Assessment\\u201d Part 2.\\xa0 Planning for change is no very different from planning a vacation.\\xa0 The Checklist will remind you of the big things to remember that sometimes get forgotten when dealing with the details of making change happen.\\xa0 Remember that part one was originally uploaded in SPaMCAST 51.\\xa0 The text of the whole essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: \\u2022\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.com\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0BLOG \\u2013 www.tcagley.wordpress.com\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Capers Jones discussing a wide range of software measurement topics.\\xa0 The interview with Capers was an exciting and I think you will find the interview an exciting listen.\\xa0 Listen with a friend!One more item . . .my father has begun to podcast his fiction at www.talesbytom.com.\\xa0 Yours truly is doing the production.\\xa0 Feel free to check it out and give him feedback.'