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September 2010

Welcome to the Silverpath Spotlight, an e-newsletter from Silverpath Technologies that discusses how to get more out of your testing efforts and highlights company news. If you have queries or article ideas, email us through our website.

Upcoming Training Events October 21, 2010 "Test Estimation: Size Is Not Enough" Register Now! through SPC Springboard October 30, 2010 "Test Management: Leading Your Test Team to Success" Register Now! through UBC Continuing Studies November 18, 2010 "Early Testing: Outside the Box" Register Now! through SPC Springboard Contact Us to arrange for these or other training workshops to be given on-site at your company. Test the Right Things at the Right Time with Silverpath Have Silverpath establish the foundation for a successful quality project by getting involved early, collating critical information, and making practical recommendations for implementation across the SDLC. Once the project is up and running, Silverpath can provide project test management oversight, project health metrics tracking and reporting, re-prioritization and strategy adjustment as projects evolve or encounter challenges all while keeping such activities lean and the team's execution velocity high. “When our team decided to ramp up our agile process, we called Trevor to consult with us. Trevor is the best in the business. In a really short time, he was able to analyze the company and make detailed recommendations to greatly improve our scrum/agile/QA processes..." Read More... Contact Us for more information on how this approach can be made to work for you. Feature: Survey Report - Project Success & Test Outsourcing By Trevor Atkins: This summer, we put out a quick 10-question survey regarding software development and outsourcing or contracting of testing services. The intention of the survey was to use the responses to paint a picture of the attitude or approach towards outsourcing of testing in comparison to how organizations seek success for their projects and teams. In general it was hoped that the responses might indicate that: Organizations were looking beyond hourly rates to the total value that was being delivered by contract service providers (eg: productivity, increased capability/capacity, organizational planning and execution improvements, bottom-line impact). Organizations were seeking solutions that: were more than just bodies to add to a project team; provided strategic thought leadership rather than just execution on assigned tasks; built a relationship with a partner specialized in delivering specific value-adds. Organizations were open to looking beyond the confines of their own offices to find much needed support such that not all of the team members needed to be co-located in order to be effective. Organizations were extracting the benefit of up-front thinking about risks and constraint trade-offs by investing into test strategy and effort estimation planning activities. Not all of these expectations were fully supported in the responses, suggesting that there is still significant opportunity for improvement benefits. However the responses provided a picture of a stronger focus on quality and testing activities than would have been expected 10 years ago. Read the full article...

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