On Defining Quality Engineering Software defines the speed of business changes and survival capability in the digital world and actors unable to meet the challenges and high-standard of digitalization will disappear. The acceleration required creates tremendous pressure that traditional software approaches like Design Thinking, Agile and DevOps contribute but are not enough to be…

Getting things done differs per person. For some, it is about the minimal effort for minimal results; for others, it is about hard-work and high achievements. It is already challenging to align people on concrete deliverables like when building a house or cooking a meal. It is even more complex…

“Plan the work, work the plan.” It sounds like a simple principle to apply in software. Yet, we still wonder why so much waste and rework is found in software implementation due to poor planning. Investment time upfront in the software lifecycle — known as Shift-left — enables to improve…

Software is a must-have. The competition pressures the actors to reinvent themselves continuously. It’s not enough to be good at one point in time; successful actors must be able to adapt constantly in an evolving ecosystem with low predictability. Organizations require both economies of scale and economies of speed to…

Alignment unlocks transformation. The need for continuous reinvention through software represents a challenge in maintaining that alignment: priorities diverge between teams and local optimizations end up as waste while the ecosystem is evolving fast. In such a context, organizations need to funnel the team’s energy of priorities that will lead…

Where to start? That’s a hard question to answer in a digital environment with accelerated competition and a low predictability. There are so many possibilities between UX, Agile, Lean, DevOps or SRE practices that we can end up paralysed. One thing we know is that Quality at Speed software is…

Why bother with methods for software? A method is the quality of being well organized and systematic in thought or action in the Oxford dictionary. …

Agility requires stability. Far from the stereotype of changing our minds every day, being agile requires sticking to important decisions in multiple parts of the organization. And for sure, it’s more than implementing a few rituals within a cross-functional team. Organizational stability is a known requirement of stability for agile…

Top players set the stage. In a context of market acceleration powered by technology, there are only more top players challenging the existing ones. “Software defines the speed at which business can deliver change and innovation” — Drew Lanham, CEO at Cypress.io Organizations are facing numerous challenges to deliver impactful…