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Quality assurance for teams

Our agile quality assurance course offers cross-functional Scrum teams (comprised of Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Team) a shared understanding of quality, QA strategies and quality goals. After completing the course, the team will have both the knowledge and the tools needed to proactively work with, implement and analyse improvements. The course takes a full day, combining theory and practical exercises and involving all participants.

About quality assurance
Quality is of central importance to the success and profitability of products and teams alike. As quality increasingly becomes a team responsibility, we are seeing challenges and consequences affecting both predictability and the team's ability to deliver. With a shared understanding of quality, strategies and goals, teams can develop quality improvements benefiting both the product and the development process.

Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at cross-functional Scrum teams, comprised of Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Team,
with different skill sets wanting to achieve a shared understanding, strategy and strategic objective for their quality work.

After the course
After completing the course, the team will have:

A shared understanding of quality
A foundation for defining quality goals
A foundation for creating a shared quality strategy
A foundation for current product quality
Tools for proactively working with, implementing and analysing improvements

Structure and content
The course takes a full day, combining theory and practical exercises and involving all participants.

We normally have two course instructors to actively support several teams during the exercises. The course content is as follows.

Quality
- Quality perspective
- Definitions
- Profitability with quality
- Quality goals

Testing
- Background
- Test definitions
- Test methods
- Testing tools
- Test automation
- Agile Testing Quadrants

Quality assurance
- QA in Scrum
- Quality as a team responsibility
- Bug management
- QA domains
- Proactive quality assurance
- Quality assurance during sprints
- Continuous quality improvement
- Continuous quality assurance
- CI/CD
- QA strategies

Prior knowledge and material
While no prior knowledge is necessary for the course, we do recommend that the entire scrum team participates at the same time. Up to two teams can attend the same course.