Presentation abstract

As one of the roles in scrum is the scrum team, it is expected from both the coders and the testers to work together within the sprint and produce a PSP (Potentially Shippable Product) at the end of each sprint.
One of the common basic behaviors, when shifting from a waterfall approach to an Agile approach, is to work in “mini-waterfall” in each sprint, i.e. the coders are working at the beginning of the sprint on the code while the testers are testing it at the end of it. This behavior (also known as “Scrumfall”) is a common first step toward agility however it is not yet Agile and definitely not Scrum.
In this session, I am going to describe not only HOW the coder and the tester should work together as a real team but also WHY the should work this way, i.e. what is the motivation of each type of a developer (coder or tester) to work together.

If you are making your first steps in the Agile or Scrum world, already working in Scrum for a while but haven’t figured it out how to work together, do not understand the benefits and motivation to work as a team or want to move to a higher level of Scrum and start working in a more mature Scrum level, where a team is in its Norming level, this session was created for you.

About the speaker – Danny (Danko) Kovatch

Danko has been practicing SCRUM couple of years ago and on January 2006 he was certified as a SCRUM Master . On 2007 he received his Practitioner certification (CSP) thus becoming the first CSP in Israel. On August 2008 his request to be a certified Scrum Trainer was approved thus he became the first and only certified Scrum Trainer (CST) in Israel.
In parallel, Danko initiated the Israeli Scrum User group.
Danko is a recognized speaker in many IT conferences including Microsoft events, national QA events, Israeli PMI, Scrum gathering and more. As practicing SCRUM coach and consultant he has assimilated SCRUM in multiple companies with a proven success, improvement of quality and efficiency, content commitment and team spirit. He is also the founder & owner of AgileSparks.
Above all, Danko is best known for his great SCRUM enthusiasm and Scrum spark.