Workshop Lean Risk Wall-of-Fame

Risk is a very important concept in testing. However, despite all the attention given to it in books, trainings, and the like, it remains a rather abstract concept for most of us.

Applying a Risk-based test approach is often proposed in test plans and/or test strategy documents but such an approach is often limited to identifying risks and determining which parts or components need the most thorough test approach. Mitigating these risks, and especially showing some ‘proof’ of this mitigation turns out to be a more difficult exercise.

The Lean Risk Wall-of-Fame is a method to keep track of Risk Management activities in a lean and understandable way. It visualizes both risk level and mitigation activities in time.

In this workshop we will go through all the phases of the Risk Management process to identify, assess, and control risks and use the Risk Wall-of-Fame to visualize status and progress. During the workshop we will identify risks for projects the attendees are working on or for one of the sample projects provided and continue with those risks for the subsequent phases to assess and prioritize and design test cases to mitigate them. And when doing so, we gradually build our own Lean Risk Wall-of-Fame.

At the end of the workshop the attendees will be able to introduce Risk Management and Risk-based Testing in their own organization and/or project, moderate the various activities and build and maintain the Risk Wall of Fame. And most important, be able to describe Risks and design Test Cases to mitigate those Risk.

Prerequisites for participants: 

Please bring a description of one of your projects which is generic enough to allow for sharing with the other participants and detailed enough to identify some risks. Have the project description on paper, in English, and bring 2 or 3 copies for your co-participants to re-read and make notes during the workshop. A description of approx.. one A4 in size should suffice.

Next to that, a laptop could be useful to search for, and share, some specific details of the project during the workshop.

Bio:

André Verschelling is Principal Consultant in Test and Trainer at ALTEN and board member of the BNTQB. As principal consultant, he helps clients of ALTEN to setup their test strategies and processes, especially in R&D environments. His knowledge and experiences range from large scale systems developments in highly regulated environments to small software development projects. André is also a trainer and coach for his test colleagues and helps them grow their career in testing with both the ISTQB® curriculum and custom-made test courses. As an ALTEN Test Ambassador he propagates the test craftsmanship at both internal and external events.

As a board member of the BNTQB, André helps to establish a body of knowledge on testing in Belgium and the Netherlands. As webmaster he facilitates the information sharing of both the BNTQB itself as well as its partners, such as training and exam providers.