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Life's too short

1. Speaker : Anna Baik

   1. Jumped from large company to awesome start-up BrightPearl

      1. Waterfall to Agile

2. Why make a change?

   1. Avoidance of Red Tape and Beurocracy

   2. When process is king, customer comes a distant second

   3. Brightpearl

      1. Small startup

      2. Agile

      3. Software for small / medium

3. So what is agile

   1. Not a monolithic process

      1. A number of different methodologies

      2. Brightpearl use SCRUM

         1. Iterations of 2 weeks

4. What did Anna love with the different env?

   1. Involved early

      1. Seeing things grow

   2. Short feedback loops

   3. Releasing stuff

5. What took longer?

   1. Pacing her work

   2. Understanding that Anna could write cards

   3. Getting a balance

   4. Stuck in a mindset of "wall" mentality

6. What helped

   1. Rapid Software Testing Course

   2. Being Prepared

   3. Weekend Testing

   4. BBST Foundations

7. What now?

   1. Company doing well

   2. 5 Testers, soon to be 7

   3. Testing is valued

   4. Great to get customer feedback