For decades, testing was treated as a phase that happened near the end of a project, after the code was written and shortly before release. That model made sense when software shipped once or twice a year, but it is actively harmful when teams deploy weekly or daily....
Test automation is one of the most over-sold and under-planned investments in software delivery. Teams are told that automating their tests will make releases faster and safer, so they record a few hundred end-to-end scripts, watch them turn flaky within a quarter,...
When a software programme misses its date, the post-mortem often blames the team that delivered last. More often than not, the real culprit is invisible: a web of dependencies between teams, systems, and external parties that no one was actively managing. In any...
Almost every organisation has lived through it: a project that began with confidence is now late, over budget, and quietly losing the trust of its sponsors. Status reports stay optimistic while the delivery date slips again, scope keeps expanding, and the team is...
