Is It Time for "Real" Agile?
Agile today generates more eye rolls than motivation. Why now is the time for real Agile: individual, human, and self-learning.
Agile Testing & Quality Engineering
Agile software development makes quality a shared and continuous responsibility. This topic connects agile testing with quality engineering and explores how feedback, testability, and risk awareness can become part of short development cycles, DevOps, and continuous delivery.
The articles and podcast episodes cover practices such as shift left and continuous testing as well as collaboration, roles, and technical foundations. The goal is not a rigid recipe or testing as early as possible at any cost, but fast and reliable feedback about product quality. This hub is for teams that want to shape quality across the delivery flow and improve their way of working pragmatically.
Articles
Agile Revolutionizes Software Testing
Integrating Agile software testing ensures quality from the start. Transform your testing mindset with DevOps and automated processes.
For, against or both?
Explore the pros and cons of digitalization with Richard Seidl's agile coaching techniques for effective transitions in the complex business landscape.
Agility and Sustainability
Discover Sustainable Software Development practices that align with agility values. Learn to embrace courageous sustainability in digital transformation.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Wolfgang Platz
Explore the future of software testing with low-code development, DevOps integration, and enhanced quality assurance methodologies.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Nico Liedl
In 2025, discover the future of software testing with agile quality management integrated with AI and new methodologies.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Thomas Karl
Explore how Lean Agile Quality Engineering and the Thomas concept test can transform software testing in 2025.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Deutschen Bahn
In 2025, explore the future of software testing with evolving quality assurance strategies and insights on CI/CD for continuous testing.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Armin Metzger
Explore how Armin Metzger's insights are shaping the future of software testing in agile teams. Embrace new methods for quality assurance.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Robin Van
Explore the future of software testing, where Quality Assurance in Agile and teamwork are crucial for success. Discover modern QA techniques!
Is Agility the Answer to the Future?
Explore agility and future technologies in mastering challenges and fostering personal development for teams in 2025.
Agile Testing - Problems and Success Factors
Agile Testing emphasizes team responsibility and quality. Uncover effective Agile Techniques for transforming your testing approach.
Test Manager in Agile Projects
As a test manager in agile projects, enhance your role in quality assurance and explore agile test management techniques. Discover best practices today!
Agile Manifesto gets 20 – Happy Birthday
Explore the Mindset of Agility and how it transforms software development and business practices today. Discover challenges and versatile applications.
What is agility?
Agility principles enhance efficiency and flexibility. Discover the benefits of agile methodologies that transform your daily workflow.
Bye bye Complicated - Hello Complex
Explore agile methodology to navigate complexity and uncertainty in software development. Embrace new strategies for enhanced project efficiency.
Testing in the Digital Transformation
Discover the Future of Software Testing and explore how Test Automation Techniques enhance efficiency and quality assurance in digital transformation.
How Agile Development is Changing Testing
Agile development is transforming software testing methods. Learn about Agile Testing Methods and redefine quality assurance in 2025 projects.
Digitalization leads to DevOps
Explore digitalization and DevOps to continuously improve software systems, enhancing quality assurance in DevOps practices. Stay ahead in 2025!
“So, from today you are testing agile!”
Agile testing enhances software quality and team dynamics through self-responsibility and fun, ensuring effective digital transformation.
The Fight Against Technical Debt
Discover Agile Software Testing strategies to manage technical debt and improve software quality effectively
Transition to Agile Software Development
Revolutionizing Agile Software Development in the medical sector to enhance quality and efficiency at every step. Discover Agile Principles for Medical Devices.
Podcast Episodes
Lean Management: Why Problem Analysis Beats Quick Fixes
Rushing to fix a problem without understanding it creates the same problem again. Lean thinking breaks that cycle and reduces waste that most teams never even notice.
Shift Your Testing Mindset: From Right Answers to Fast Feedback
Software isn't a bridge. It talks to other software, shifts unpredictably, and that's exactly why testing is about learning, not getting it right the first time.
Post-Agile: What Organizations Actually Need Now
Agile meant something once. Now it means almost nothing, and that loss created a real opening for organizational development that actually fits.
Patient agility: Is agile working dying?
Agility is ailing in many companies, but it is not dead. Two rescue service schemes show where the pain is and what can help now.
Why Your CI Pipeline Is Lying to You
Flaky tests don't just slow down CI, they erode trust until engineers stop believing the build. Here's how to fix that.
How Testers Impact Developer Experience
Four DORA metrics already measure what QA teams care about most. Here's how testers can make their work visible through DevEx coaching.
Ask Me Anything about AI, automation and Shift Left
176 episodes, 122,000 downloads, flaky tests, AI fears and a microphone faux pas: what the year really left behind.
Control what you can control
Stoic philosophy turns out to be a sharper tool for product decisions than most agile frameworks. Here's why outcome focus misleads teams.
What is Behavior Driven Development, Really?
Most teams treat BDD as a testing technique and miss the real value. Here is what happens when examples drive shared understanding instead.
Everyone Owns Quality? Really?
When everyone owns quality, no one really does. Why cross-functional teams often lack the deep testing skills they need most.
Remote Testing Services
Bringing external testers into the agile team - in one week? How this works with contingents, clear communication and a fixed contact person.
Built in Quality
Agile quality often breaks not in the team, but one layer above. How practices, not frameworks, keep quality from falling through the cracks.
Retrospectives done right
Why do retrospectives so often produce the same little pieces of paper? Five phases, a design canvas and a crucial error in thinking about the measures.
Holistic Testing
Quality isn't a phase you reach at the end of a sprint. Holistic testing shows how shared understanding early prevents the rework that quietly kills teams.
Learning with simulations
If you really want to understand agile working, you don't need a slide - you need a board, cards and a round of simulation.
Quality in the SAFe environment
Quality responsibility does not end at the story boundary. How quality coaching in SAFe closes the gaps between teams that nobody wanted to see.
Software Analysis
What happens when a third of the adopted code is only available as a black box? How an agile mindset and honesty can save a ticket store project.
Shift Left vs Shift Right: You Don't Have to Pick One
Shift left parallelizes testing before go-live, shift right watches production. One insurer runs the same UI tests in both worlds. How that works.
What you should know about change even in post-agile times
Agile transformation with a hangover? Four change models show why change fails and how small steps achieve more than major upheavals.
Planet Earth as a stakeholder
Why should the earth be a stakeholder in the next sprint? Sustainable software saves costs, conserves resources and makes systems better for everyone.
Don't give me technicality
Scrum provides a process, but not a plan for good requirements. What happens before the backlog often determines product success more than any sprint.
Agile remote teams vs. on-site teams
Remote teams can work better together than office teams, but only on one condition: Knowledge must be networked, not people.
DevOps
DevOps is not a process model, but a battle cry against burnout and wasted budgets. Four metrics show where things really get stuck.
New edition Agile Testing
Agile testing has long been common sense, but why does overall quality still fail when twelve teams run at each other?
Keep CI small
6.000 test cases, CI runtime under 10 minutes: How test-based selection via code coverage makes exactly that possible.
Continuous Everything - Do we need it?
Shift left sounds good, but does it really make a difference? How six years of data show what Continuous Everything actually changes and what it doesn't.
A critical look at BDD
BDD looks simple, but it's not. Why Gherkin without real team communication creates more effort than benefit, and how to do it right.
House of Agile Quality
Agile quality needs more than test automation: roles, approach and processes must fit together. The House of Agile Quality shows you where to start.
Shift Left
If you only check quality during testing, you've already lost. How unit tests, IDE plugins and contract testers make errors visible earlier.
Ensemble testing and ensemble programming
Four to six people, one keyboard, real code: Ensemble Testing brings testers and developers together where documentation and meetings fail.
What is BDD (Behavior Driven Development)?
Why do developers and business departments read the same requirement and still understand something different? BDD and Given-When-Then close precisely this gap.
Quality assurance in agile projects
Quality in agile projects is not created at the back in acceptance testing, but at the very front in dialog. Why this is the case and what often goes wrong.