Agile and Beyond 2018

Imagine a world where software product development lifecycle doesn’t have a testing phase. That’s exactly where we’re headed. Quality is a continuous process, not a phase. If a product bug is found in the testing phase, it’s already too late. It directly shoots up the product cost and time to build the product. So, let’s get rid of the testing phase altogether. But how does a team build a product with high quality without having a testing phase while also maintaining the cost and time? The feedback loop starts right when the team starts to talk about a product idea. When quality is baked into every stage of the lifecycle, a separate testing phase is unnecessary. In this talk we’ll walk through the processes and tools that has enabled our teams at ITHAKA to build quality products by baking quality in them from the beginning.