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Open vs Fully Closed cubicles and its impact on Team QA in Agile Ragavan Ambighananthan

Open vs Fully Closed cubicles and its impact on Team QA in Agile Ragavan Ambighananthan. Agenda. How environment impacts communication ? How communication or the lack of it affects QA ? Why QA is affected more than other team members ?. Environments and SDLC models I have worked.

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Open vs Fully Closed cubicles and its impact on Team QA in Agile Ragavan Ambighananthan

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  1. Open vs Fully Closed cubiclesandits impact on Team QA in AgileRagavanAmbighananthan Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  2. Agenda How environment impacts communication ? How communication or the lack of it affects QA ? Why QA is affected more than other team members ? Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  3. Environments and SDLC models I have worked Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  4. Semi-Open Cubicle Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  5. Fully Closed Cubicle Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  6. Fully Open or Open Space Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  7. Agile, Environment and Communication The type of environment affects the way we (QA) communicate in Agile Where you don’t have a PRD and a func spec, the frequency of communication between QA Engineers and team members will be very high. Not just the communication but minute by minute communication within team members plays an important role in making Agile a “super fast” development model Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  8. QA communicate a lot than others Fully Open Cubicle: Communication occurs in terms of minutes QA Team QA Team Dev Team Dev Team CM Team CM Team Product Owner Product Owner SM SM Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  9. Why traffic is high from QA Team • QA Engineers work on more than one story at a time • Needs to communicate with more than one developer • A defect every half an hour involves communication with development engineer and product owner • Build deployment involves communication with CM • Communication with other QA peers Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  10. Use Case 1: Open Cubicle and Agile • Face to face communication is instant and fast • You are always seeing the team • Occupy less space per engineer • End to end communication is in terms of minutes • Easy to move desk space to create logical teams Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  11. Delay in Communication caused by environment Fully Closed Cubicle: Communication occurs in terms of hours QA Team QA Team Dev Team Dev Team CM Team CM Team Product Owner Product Owner SM SM Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  12. Use Case 2: Closed Cubicle and Agile • Face to face communication is difficult if not impossible • Nobody can see if a person is inside or not • Occupy more space per engineer, teams span across multiple floors • This combines with flexi time, will be a disaster • End to end communication takes hours to closure Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  13. Other Environmental impact – Flexi Time • Agile needs whole team to be working together • Flexi time with Agile impacts agility • This can be work-around by having team specific in and out time within a company Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  14. Other Environmental impact – Resources • Giving QA team bigger (in terms of memory, hard disk) and faster (in terms of CPU) boxes, will increase productivity • It’s a good ROI to give QA engineers more powerful boxes • More “visual paths” with selected different OS Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

  15. Questions ? Ragavan Ambighananthan, London, UK, +44-7595512264

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