Dear Readers,
we are very happy with the response of the market. We are on the right track for success with the Agile Record.
Thank you to all of you who support and spread the links to your interested contacts. We need the community to succeed. We need you not only to read the magazine, but also to write articles to inform, to share knowledge or just to give your opinion. We have seen and still see that there is a lot to learn and to share. Agile is getting more and more popular and the new members of the community are happy about the transfer medium Agile Record.
In our conference “Testing & Finance” in Bad Homburg, Germany, Nitin Bhargava, Head of Quality Services at Barclays, held a keynote and told that around 25% of the projects run by Barclays are already done by agile methods.
Amazing! He pointed out that they figured out that it is not that easy to run these projects using outsourced forces and that’s why they started to run it by local teams. I don’t know if this means that test outsourcing is on the way out, maybe not, but for sure in the way of transforming. I think that outsourcing will happen as a complete service. I mean development and testing for agile projects in one go. If you have experience with that, please send me an article on it.
I also spoke with one of the biggest software and system service companies for banks. They told me that they just run small projects in Agile. As soon as one project has too much interfaces/interferences from other projects expecting results and so on, it is for them impossible to control the interchange gates to determinate dates. I don’t know if any of you have some experience with that, but we are happy about any article discussing experiences with those kind of projects.
We are facing the Agile Testing Days in Berlin. We are happy to see that many of you are using the early bird. Please be aware that there are only 20 places for each tutorial. First come first served! The conference hotel has only a capacity of 170 rooms. If you want to be there and not in another hotel next to it, then book there soon.
The Oz Agile Days in Sydney are organized together with Planit Ltd. The call for papers is over and we will present the Program in a few days. Please inform your contacts down under. Australia, we are on the way to you!
The Belgium Testing Days are going to be quite Agile and we are in the planning. Save the dates Feb 14–16, 2011.
Last but not least, I want to thank all the authors for the great articles and the supporting companies for their ads. Thanks!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Enjoy reading
José Díaz
P.S. Don’t be sad when Spain wins the World Cup!!