Practical techniques for risk analysis to improve the value of testing

In agile teams, risks are often discussed superficially or only in terms of functionality and security. Yet real product quality depends on a broader view: performance, usability, reliability, resilience, and more. In this practical talk, you will discover three techniques to identify, and act on risks, such as the Nightmare Headline Game, Risk Mining, and the Bowtie technique. These approaches help teams move from vague concerns to concrete overviews of risks. You’ll leave with an deeper understanding of risks and ideas you can use immediately in your own projects.

Value for the audience:
Participants will gain a set of practical facilitation techniques they can immediately use to make risks visible and discussable in their teams. You will learn how to use quality attributes and to connect these to risks via a gamification method and start to prioritize them effectively.

Problems addressed:
Risks in agile teams are often limited to functionality and security, leaving blind spots in other quality attributes.

Risk sessions, if they happen at all, are unstructured and fail to produce actionable outcomes.

Teams struggle to translate abstract risks into concrete testing activities and shared responsibilities.

Talk language: English
Level: Advanced
Target group: All people involved in software development interested in risk based testing

Company:
De Agile Testers

Rob van Steenbergen