Janet Gregory

Janet Gregory

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About

Provide agile consulting, training and coaching for agile teams, with specialties in agile testing and process consulting.

More than twenty years experience in software development. Over fourteen of those spent helping teams transition to an agile software development environment, specializing in helping testers and business understand their role as part of the 'whole team approach'.

I bring a strong technical background balanced with a business perspective.

Specialties: Agile methodologies in software development, process improvement, testing

Experience

Publications

  • A Guide for Facilitating Quality Assessments with Case Studies using QPAM

    LeanPub

    This book is a companion to Janet and Selena’s Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM: Enabling Teams to Improve, which explains the Quality Practices Assessment Model created by Janet and Selena. In this second book, you'll find a detailed approach to conducting assessments, along with realistic examples. For further facilitator support, four case studies detail what teams may look like in their daily practices in one of the four dimensions of the QPAM model: Beginning, Unifying…

    This book is a companion to Janet and Selena’s Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM: Enabling Teams to Improve, which explains the Quality Practices Assessment Model created by Janet and Selena. In this second book, you'll find a detailed approach to conducting assessments, along with realistic examples. For further facilitator support, four case studies detail what teams may look like in their daily practices in one of the four dimensions of the QPAM model: Beginning, Unifying, Practicing, and Innovating. These examples provide additional guidance to facilitators evaluating a team with the QPAM model.

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  • Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into Your Product

    self-published

    This mini book is about the Holistic Testing Model and how to develop a quality and testing strategy for the whole team, throughout the development process and beyond. By whole team, we include all specialities. UI/UX designers, product owners, programmers, testers, database experts, business analysts, as well as site reliability and platform engineers. Some organizations may have specialties in separate teams rather than embedded on cross-functional teams – for example, security, performance…

    This mini book is about the Holistic Testing Model and how to develop a quality and testing strategy for the whole team, throughout the development process and beyond. By whole team, we include all specialities. UI/UX designers, product owners, programmers, testers, database experts, business analysts, as well as site reliability and platform engineers. Some organizations may have specialties in separate teams rather than embedded on cross-functional teams – for example, security, performance, or load testers. In the holistic testing model, they collaborate closely however the teams are organized.

    Currently available as a free download.

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  • Assessing Agile Quality Practices with QPAM

    LeanPub

    Janet and Selena introduce a quality practices assessment model (QPAM) that considers dimensions and quality aspects for behaviours and practices within teams and organizations. Consultants, coaches, managers, and even team members learn what high quality looks like for feedback loops, testing, code quality, culture, and more.

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  • Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction

    LeanPub

    Agile Testing Condensed presents a concise, easy-to-read overview of how to succeed with testing and build a quality culture in an agile context.

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  • Agile Testing Collection

    Addison-Wesley

    An e-book that combines both Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. Available in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.

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  • More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

    Addison-Wesley

    This book about adapting agile testing for your environment; learning from experience and continually improving your test processes; scaling agile testing across teams; and overcoming the pitfalls of automated testing. You’ll find brand-new coverage of agile testing for the enterprise, distributed teams, mobile/embedded systems, regulated environments, data warehouse/BI systems, and DevOps practices.Look inside for many other great sidebars from members of the agile testing community

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    • Lisa Crispin
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  • Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

    Addison-Wesley

    ISBN 0-321-53446-8. Available on Amazon, InformIT

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