Hell of a Tester

Our normal work week is currently organised like this: Monday morning, and the #weeklyStartUp We start the week with a short 15 minute meeting the whole team (20 people) participates, called "The weekly startup". In that meeting we go briefly through our main goals for the week, and decide in which kind of work groups to solve them. People can themselves decide which goals they want to work with, and based on that we decide our work groups. This goal list is a one page google doc with 5-10 goals, each written in the format of Do what , in order to get why accomplished. And the goal list is not meant to include everything anybody is going to work on, just the most important goals. We allow and expect people to engage on various other things too, as long as those won't come with a big expense on the main goals. Monday-Thursday, we work Work groups have full freedom and responsibility to plan, implement, test, deploy, and communicate what they believe is nece...

Our team has a practice of dynamically splitting down to work groups to solve different goals. Grouping happens through our normal weekly process , respecting these common ideas: ***** 1. Each bigger task or project should be done within a work group of at least 2 devs + qa + ba Because we believe that in the long run it is through teamwork that we can “deliver fast and with good quality every time” ***** 2. Work group is created based on (suggested) people voluntarily deciding to work on it, but still ensuring enough competence. Because being able to affect on what you work on is good for your motivation. And motivation is key. ***** 3. Work group is responsible for deciding, planning, implementing, and releasing the next most important task(s) on the project. Giving freedom and responsibility to the people who know best. ***** 4. Planning is done with whole group; when needed, when starting on the next task(s), or if there is a need to do some planning. “P...