Comments on: Multiple roles http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/2009/06/07/multiple-roles/ Thoughts on Agile software development, facilitation, communication, and relationships in the personal and professional worlds, from Steven "Doc" List Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Matts http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/2009/06/07/multiple-roles/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Chris Matts Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:41:02 +0000 http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/?p=442#comment-597 As someone who advocates merging the QA and BA into a single process, I like the idea of people who can do both roles. As you rightly say, the risk is horrendous. There should be at least two of the suckers on the project at least. What happens if he is off sick? Who steps in? As someone who advocates merging the QA and BA into a single process, I like the idea of people who can do both roles.

As you rightly say, the risk is horrendous. There should be at least two of the suckers on the project at least. What happens if he is off sick? Who steps in?

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]]> By: Doc http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/2009/06/07/multiple-roles/comment-page-1/#comment-578 Doc Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:30:52 +0000 http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/?p=442#comment-578 I agree with your post - my concern is not about the lack of someone in the <em>role</em> QA, but that there is no concept of QA other than the somewhat random, informal testing that the developers do, plus the "we'll do as much as we can now, and hope we catch any other bugs later" QA that is done by the people on the business side. I agree with your post – my concern is not about the lack of someone in the role QA, but that there is no concept of QA other than the somewhat random, informal testing that the developers do, plus the “we’ll do as much as we can now, and hope we catch any other bugs later” QA that is done by the people on the business side.

]]> By: Jason Yip http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/2009/06/07/multiple-roles/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Jason Yip Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:01:23 +0000 http://www.stevenlist.com/blog/?p=442#comment-577 If you mean QA as quality assurance, then it doesn't sound like they are doing quality assurance but if you mean QA as quality assurance, it's not appropriate to think of QA as a role. http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-matter-how-many-times-you-say-it-we.html If you mean QA as quality assurance, then it doesn’t sound like they are doing quality assurance but if you mean QA as quality assurance, it’s not appropriate to think of QA as a role.

http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-matter-how-many-times-you-say-it-we.html

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