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Managing Testing Projects

Thursday, August 21, 2025, 10:00 am - 6:00  ET

Testing success depends on more than just creating and executing test cases.  Testing actually is a project, which needs to be managed.  Without effective management of the testing project, it will fail.  Proven project management methods increase success when used effectively.  Project Managers fail when running testing projects because they don't understand testing or how it interacts with project management.  Test Managers fail when they shortchange their management side.  Learn how to put them together for testing and project success.

• Why managing testing as a sub-project within the overall development project increases success.
• Integrating powerful test planning and design with proven project planning.
• Credibly estimating, scheduling, executing, and controlling all testing elements.

Write Right Agile User Story Acceptance Tests Workshop

Thursday, September 11, 2025, 10:00 - 6:00 ET

Agile project participants regularly report great difficulties with supposedly-simple user stories and even greater difficulties with their supposedly equally simple acceptance tests.  Moreover, what little guidance the industry offers often contributes to the difficulties. 

Equating acceptance tests with non-functional requirements and over-emphasizing “automated” Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) acceptance test execution can’t help but produce inadequate tests. 

This interactive workshop reveals reasons user story acceptance tests fall short of their hype, explains critical concepts needed for effectiveness as tests, and uses a real case to provide participants guided practice writing and evaluating user story acceptance criteria/tests that indeed give demonstrable confidence user stories have been satisfied. 

• Proper purpose of user story acceptance tests and common obstacles to achieving it.
• Helpful and not-so-helpful places for non-functional requirements and automated BDD execution.
• Key testing concepts/techniques for more  effective user story acceptance criteria/tests.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed business and project managers, analysts, designers, programmers, testers, auditors, users and other stakeholders who can and should contribute to defining requirements and confirming their accomplishment.