Lisa Crispin talks with Dave Rael about teams, donkeys, experimenting, and impostor syndrome
Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (2014), Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (2009), co-author with Tip House of Extreme Testing (2002). Lisa was voted by her peers as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person in 2012. Lisa enjoys working as a tester and sharing her experiences in the agile and testing communities. Please visit www.lisacrispin.com and www.agiletester.ca for more.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Lisa Crispin
- - Lisa's association with donkeys
- - The nature of Agile
- - Lisa's role in a team as a tester and more - deep in business domains
- - Lisa's definition of value
- - Lisa's experience with waterfall and moving to Extreme Programming
- - Why Extreme Programming resonated so much with Lisa
- - The things that "light Lisa up"
- - How and why Lisa got into software and the people-orientation of programming
- - "Inventing" testing and the joy of testing
- - Lisa's story of failure - inability to overcome discomfort with the spotlight and a continuing perceived shortage of confidence despite successes - the struggle with impostor syndrome continues
- - Becoming a conference speaker despite fears about doing it - motivation and help from others
- - Lisa's success story - being an author
- - Lisa's book recommentation
- - Being a marginalized tester and finding allies
- - The true nature of a tester - tester vs checker - the importance of professional development
- - The things that have Lisa most excited
- - The things about which Lisa likes to geek out
- - Pair presenting
- - Lisa's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Lisa
Resources:
- Lisa's Website and Blog
- Agile Testing
- Hippogriff
- Elisabeth Hendrickson
- "I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Aslak Hellesøy on Developer On Fire
- Matt Wynne on Developer On Fire
- Dan North
- Brian Marick
- Gojko Adzic on Developer On Fire
- Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing - Gojko Adzic
- Specification Workshops
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition (The XP Series) - Kent Beck
- Linda Rising on Developer On Fire
- Pivotal Tracker
- Impostor syndrome
- Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy
- Janet Gregory
- Michael Bolton on Developer On Fire
- Amitai Schleier on Developer On Fire
Lisa's book recommendation:
Lisa's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Experiment rather than debate
- Collaborate - don't do it alone
- Try stuff