User Group Meeting 2/11/2010 6:00 p.m. Meeting Agenda 1. Group Goal: To create a forum in our local area where we can exchange ideas related to agile development practices. 2. Group Meeting Frequency: Monthly, on the second Thursday of every month. 3. Duration: 1 Hour Reminders 1. This group is not sponsored by TradeStation. 2. This is a public forum 3. The preference is to meet in person. 4. Solutions that work in one place, may not necessarily work in others. 5. This is you group Suggestions for topics Tonights Topic: Testing in a Scrum Environment - My Experience Presenter: Albert Paredes, VP Quality Assurance, TradeStation Technologies 1. Structure Agile and System Teams Agile and System Teams composition and workflow 2. Challenges: Synergy Agile and System Teams Synchronicity When does Agile testing ends and System Testing begins (Handoff Documentation) Documentation Documents under waterfall vs. iteration level stories importance for testers Collocation/Distributed Teams/Outsourcing Functional vs. feature driven teams Tool selection; bug tracking, story tracking, progress and reports 4. Benefits Transparency within and outside of teams (executives) Focus Work effort in smaller increments makes it easier to focus on the target at hand (warning on long term planning). Collation and communication - The environment lends itself to improved team collaboration and accountability (e.g. daily stand ups, story boards, iteration and release planning and collocation). 5. Target Increase d productivity and quality Frequent releases with improved quality Bugs found earlier in the development process Stakeholders actively involved in development at all points. Tonights Topic: Testing in a Scrum Environment - My Experience Presenter: Albert Paredes, VP Quality Assurance, TradeStation Technologies