For the first time, I’m doing a session at the Online Testing Conference. I’ll be playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to help people explore how things are going and to improve their way of working. Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification So many challenges, so little time. As testers we need to sharpen the saw, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people. In this presentation, Ben Linders will play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to show how you can explore your current quality and testing practice and decide in your team on what to improve or experiment with. Players can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values, principles, and practices. In teams, people can use the cards to share their experiences and learnings. Different game formats can be used to share experiences on testing and quality principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively. Takeaways Show how to use gamification to self-assess your current way of working. Play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards. Explore how to facilitate games to enhance quality and testing in agile teams. \ Online Testing Conference OnlineTestConf was the first 100% online conference to provide all the advantages of attending professional QA related conferences: personal learning, networking etc. without the shortcomings of scheduling, expenses and travel. The conference has been running for the past 5 years on a semi-annual basis, long before COVID-19 forced all live events online. Our next event will be our 10th OnlineTestConf! Conference attendees are from all parts of the world, we host well known speakers as well as young presenters, and discuss everything that relates to Testing and QA. Attendance is and will remain free of charge and we invite anyone who sees themselves involved in testing and the testing community to join.

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Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker
Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous improvement
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
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Books: Valuable Agile Retrospectives Problem? What Problem?
What Drives Quality Self-assessments Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game Retrospectives Bingo Impediments
Quality Coaching Agile Testing Psychological Safety Culture

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Coaching
Unlocks a person’s potential to maximize their
performance. Coaching helps them to learn
rather than teaching them. (International Coaching Community)
 Help people change in the way they wish
 Supporting people in becoming who they want to be
Not: Mentoring, training, consulting

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Gamification
Applying principles and practices from
gaming in a non-gaming context
 Solving problems/challenges together,
 Share stories, travel journeys
 Progression or emerge structure
Enabling Improvement

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Agile Quality/Testing Coaching

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Health Check

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What can gamification bring?
 People like to play games
 Encourage and involve people
 Provide different perspectives
 Stimulate collaboration
 Build relationships
 Visualize what’s happening
 Establish safety to fail and learn

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Agile Self-assessment Game
Started as Agile Coaching Cards
Many game formats/exercises
Expansion Packs for Scrum, DevOps, …
Book: Exercises & Experience Stories
Testing, Quality, Psychological Safety
Kanban
Scrum
Business
DevOps Agile

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Angel’s Advocate

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Sharing Challenges

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Key Takeaways
• Testing and quality challenges are largely impacted by
the way people work and how they collaborate
• Coaching, both technical and on team working, can lead
to higher quality
• Self-assessments and gamification can be used to
enable and foster continuous improvement

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Links
Agile Self-assessments benlinders.com/game
Quality Coaching Cards benlinders.com/shop/agile-quality-coaching-cards/
Testing Coaching Cards benlinders.com/shop/agile-testing-coaching-cards/
Contact me for a discount code! benlinders@gmail.com

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Questions?
Questions?
Ben Linders
Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker
Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
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