Room
Room F1 - Track 1: Talks
Audience
This talk is targeted to Testers, Engineers and Product Owners in growing organisations.
Key-Learning
- Deal with dependencies
- Zero Bug Policy
- Deal with legacy code
- Grow as a crossfunctional team
- Foster pull principle
You may have already experienced it. There is a bug and everyone expects someone else to take care of it. I call that the blame game and it happens on many levels in an organisation:
- You are a cross-functional team and it's expected from the backend developer to fix backend problems.
- Teams are divided in their domains, when the ownership of a bug is unclear and no one takes ownership
- Even departments like Customer Care and Development can have different opinions from their stakeholders about a bug Symptoms can be long discussions or even ignorance.
Teams distrust each other, technical debts grow, users get frustrated and the culture becomes toxic. In my own experience, I experienced the blame game mostly between teams when we grew from 2 developer teams to multiple teams committing to the same repository and dealing with a lot of legacy code. The blame game can occur as a growing pain of an organisation.
In this session you will get to know certain strategies about how to avoid the blame game which injects a culture of transparency and trust into your organisation.