Shift Left for GCCs
Challenges in GCCs
• High attrition rates and Burnout
• Inefficient processes and resource utilization
• Personality related challenges: Diverse Needs, engagement levels & Work
styles
• Misaligned performance metrics
• Lack of continuous improvement culture
• Reality Check?
• Lower productivity
• Challenges in GCCs Challenges in GCCs
• Increased operational costs
• Disengaged employees
Our Objectives
• Enhance Performance
• Build High Performance Culture
• Leadership Development
• Use Lean & Agile Principles to bridge the gap from High
Performance to Leadership Development
Solution Approach with Lean Principles
• Understand True Customer Value
• Focus on what employees and clients genuinely value, prioritizing activities that drive engagement
and productivity.
• Prioritize employee well-being and engagement, focusing on tasks that bring personal and
professional fulfillment.
• Map & Identify Inefficiencies
• Analyze and optimize workflows to identify inefficiencies, remove bottlenecks, and streamline handoffs
to reduce workload pressure
• Flow Creation for better Task Load management
• Establish balanced workloads and reduce bottlenecks to help manage stress levels and prevent
burnout.
• Pull System Implementation
• Reduce overload & along with employees competence, mental & emotional capacity
• Continuous Improvement
• Build a culture that encourages continuous feedback and supports mental health, fostering a resilient,
engaged workforce.
Drive Key Outcomes
• Performance Metrics
• Reduced operational costs, improved KPIs, and streamlined
workflows.
• Employee Retention
• Enhanced job satisfaction and engagement, leading to lower
attrition.
• Agility and Competitiveness
• GCCs become more adaptable and aligned with business goals.
How Lean Processes Help?
• Increased Efficiency
• Value Stream Mapping reduces unnecessary tasks, saving time and resources.
• Helps cut down non-essential tasks, easily workload pressures and reducing mental strain
• Improved Engagement
• Customer Value Focus aligns employees' tasks with meaningful outcomes, enhancing job
satisfaction and personal fulfilment
• Reduced Bottlenecks
• Flow Creation allows for balanced workloads, preventing burnout and reducing attrition.
• Enhanced Agility
• Pull System enables timely task prioritization, aligning with current demand and improving
responsiveness.
• Sustained Improvement
• Continuous Improvement Culture promotes a proactive approach to performance
management.
Solution Approach
• Customer Value: Focus on well-being and engagement in
career paths.
• Value Stream Mapping: Define skill-building steps for
leadership.
• Flow Creation: Simplify transition to management roles.
• Pull System: Provide on-demand leadership resources.
• Continuous Improvement & Mental Health: Supportive
culture prepares engineers for management demands.
8
Brief History
1900 2000
1980
1960
1940
1920
Frederick
Taylor –
Scientific
Managemen
t
Henry Ford –
Production
Line
Walter
Schewhart –
Statistical
Quality
Control
Joseph Juran –
Quality
Control
191
0
193
0
1950 197
0
1990
War
triggered
Mass
Production
Edward
Deming –
PDSA Rebuild
Post War
Japan
Hundreds of
companies
world-wide start
to adopt Lean 6
Sigma
John Krafcik &
Jim Womak
Coin the term
‘Lean’
Taiichi Ohno -
Toyota Production
System: Beyond
Large-scale
Production
TQM Starts to
be widely
used
Jack Welch Make 6
Sigma central to
the business
strategy at GE
Crosby – Zero
Defects
Motorola coin
the term Six
Sigma
Lean is not
…. all about headcount reduction
…. a project management framework
…. a rigid set of rules
…. the responsibility of specific individuals only
…. just for manufacturing
…. not about working harder, but working smarter
Key Lean Principles & Thinking
• Amalgamation of tools and techniques
• Enables the organization to maximize customer value while
minimizing waste
• A Management philosophy
• Empowers staff deliver changes that facilitate systematic
continuous improvement
• Set of defined principles
• Standardized and simplify processes to enable efficient and
effective flow of work through the organization that minimizes
delays and rework
• Strategy Deployment
• Top down enabled, bottom up delivered
How are lean companies different?
• Lean companies
• Systematic continuous improvement
• Structured framework and tools set
• Sustainable changes
• Effects build on each other
• Address the root cause
• Long-term permeant fixes
• Traditional
companies
• Irregular improvement drives
• Unstructured approach
• Lack sustainability
• Improvements effects decline
• Focus on the symptom
• Look for work arounds
Effectiveness
12
The pursuit of perfection via a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating
waste through continuous improvement of the Value Stream, enabling the product or
information to flow at a rate determined by the pull of the customer
1.
Value
2.
Value
Strea
m
3. Flow
4. Pull
5. Seek
Perfection
5 Principles of Lean Wasteful Practices
Core Concepts of Lean
What Zero (s) do we value?
• Zero scope creep
• Zero Defects
• Minimal to Zero Testing
• Zero Reporting
• Zero Wastage
• Zero Conflicts| One alignment – does not mean no fierce
conversations. All of us have one common goal
• Zero Attrition
Basic
Hygiene
Architecture simplicity with end-to-end tool chain
Think Left Shift. Use BDD / TDD. Don’t have code that is not
testable
Definition of Done – peer code review and demonstrable +
QA signoff.
Use Lint over coding standards and adhere to best
practices.
• Remove unnecessary code.
Test Cases as important as Code
Make regression testing light – Use Automation QA
Just don’t be Agile – Be Lean
Agile Release
Planning
• Agile release planning is a product management method based on batching iterations (sprints or
set of sprints).
• Planning incremental releases of a product. Delivering value incrementally.
• By focusing on the short term and repeating the process, you can adapt better and
progress faster.
• You may have more than ONE assembly line/scrum delivering roadmap items
• In Agile release planning, you prepare for staged releases and then break those down into several
different sprints or iterations.
• Every sprint item ends with a new product increment but that does not mean a release happens
every sprint.
• Release planning helps you plan which product increments gets released to the market and when
Track your Burndown
• Scrum Burn Down shows how a sprint plan is delivered.
• Release Burn Down shows how roadmap items are
delivered.
• Helps you track the progress from sprint to sprint
• Aids to anticipate if the relevant product backlog items can be
delivered on time and budget (or how long it will take and how
much it will cost),
• And to make the necessary adjustments, such as,
• Reduce or remove a feature, or
• Add a new team member to the team.
Deliverin
g on-
time is a
promise
• Delivering a product goals/roadmaps can be challenging. That’s why you are
here.
• Break your goals – release maps into smaller milestones and sub-projects
• Setup assembly lines for each of your sub-projects.
• Focus on to deliver your immediate milestone while you are mindful of next
milestones ahead.
• Re-evaluate your goals at periodic intervals
• To check whether they are realistic; validate your estimates
continuously
• If something is taking longer than planned
• Re-evaluate where you went wrong ? Project itself is a problem
child or planning/estimation.
• What got missed?
• If it is planning/estimation, reach out to your stakeholders?
• Different date?
• What is the feature/functionality that can be pulled out?
• However, arriving on time is a higher priority? Why? Are you
missing a connection? What else will suffer?
• If it is the project? Conduct a huddle. If you cannot have a
resolution? Conduct a bigger huddle with more stakeholders?
T-(minus) Program Tool
‘T-’ invaluable tool
used to assist
leadership, Product
Owners, and
development teams
in delivering their
work-items
A T-minus or
countdown schedule
is a list of every task
required in order to
deliver the release/
roadmap items for
business.
The development
team has to deliver
compendium of
roadmaps as a goal
to the business.
The objective of
using the T-minus
schedule is to
ensure that every
roadmap has been
addressed prior to
substantial
completion of
release.
Each task identified
on the T-minus
schedule is assigned
to a scrum team that
is responsible for
that item.
Within each scrum
team, a staff
member is assigned
to “champion” –
Scrum Master for
each roadmap so
that every roadmap
on the schedule is
being worked on
and tracked.
Weekly progress
meetings (WSR) help
ensure tasks are
being completed on
a timely basis.
Microsoft Excel
Worksheet
Benefits of Shift Left Testing
• Finding the defects early thereby reducing the cost of the project.
• Testing continuously again and again to reduce defects in the
end.
• To automate everything and improve time to market.
• To focus on customer requirements and improve the customer
experience.
• Focus on things that matters
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
• Working software over comprehensive documentation.
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
• Responding to change over following a plan.
• Fail Early, fail often Succeed early
• aka: Test early and often
• Enables Incremental release : frequent releases of small amounts
of functionality
• Reduce Time to Market
• Improve Predictability
• Optimize Wastage
• Involve cross-functional testing
• BA (+ customer voice) + Dev + Testers/QC + DevOps
• Support Build Automation for CI CT CD
Backlog
Prioritizatio
n
Sprint
Planning
Design &
Coding
Run
Against
Test Cases
Refractor,
Integrate
Component
s
Integration
Testing
Acceptance
Training &
Documents
Deploymen
t &
Maintenanc
e
Planning
L1 & L3 Ticket
Reviews
L3 Ticket
Retrospective
Dev, QA and
Product
DevOps
Review
Architecture
Reviews
Process &
Best Practice
Training
Release
Management
Sprint
Retrospection
Process
Metrics &
Monitoring
To Do
[Dev Team]
Decides the card to be
picked for development
[QA Team]
Performs action on test
plan, required test data
[PO]
Grooming Session
with Dev & QA
Team
[QA & TL]
Requirements are
Atomic & less
dependence on
other Tickets
Acceptance Criteria
[Sign Off]
[Scrum Master]
Story Pointing
using Poker
Planning
Scrum Master &
PO
KTLO / Backlog &
Integration Team
IN Progress QC Ready In QC Done
Dev QA QA
Lead
TL Arch
[PO]
Reviews QA Test Cases
[Sign Off]
[QA]
Test case [Sign Off]
QA Reviews Dev
Adherence
[QA] Smoke Testing
[Arch]
Assess regression impact
, performance impact,
security impact [Sign Off]
Scrum
Lead
Dev QA
[QA]
Automation Test execution
Build Acceptance Test execution
If fail
[Arch]
Dev RCA assessment if there is a
regression defect
[Dev]
Dev testing or fix sprint regression
defects
If Pass
[PO]
Sprint Functional Demo to Dev
Stakeholders
Release notes
Release communication
Update User Guide [Training]
[Scrum Master]
Tags Release in Jira
Conduct Release retrospective
[Devops]
Release version details
EXIT
ENTR
Y
Groomed & Story
Pointed Sprint
Plan
Prioritized Backlog Tagged to active or
future sprint
Impacted modules are
listed
Code Analyzer results and
coding guidelines
adherence
Dev testing results in
Dev-INT environment in
JIRA
Regression Test results update in
JIRA
JIRA updated with build and
environment details with status change
and resolution as fixed
Ticket Sign off by QA Lead
Release sign off by PO
[DEV]
TDD Test Cases in GWT
Development as per
Coding Guidelines &
Standards [Sign Off]
100% Dev Test
Coverage [Incl.. Code
Analyzer]
[TL]
Code Walk Thru [Sign
Off]
Code check-in to right
branch after Dev Integ-
Testing with Dev Build
#
10X – Dev Process
Dev Unit Testing results
in JIRA
Picked up card with
resolution as
Development
QA logs defect
QA continues Regression Testing
and PO Demo
Arch Scrum
Master &
PO
Devop
s
QA
Lead
What do we mean by being Lean?
• People over processes. Meaningful activities over scrum ceremonies.
• Think ahead. All battle plans are useless but when in doubt plan before execution.
• Don’t code unless you own the requirement.
• Minimize WIP items: Try as much as possible to work on ONE ticket at a time
• Prioritize Right – Focus on creating value to the customer. Just be the customer while
prioritizing
• Remove wasteful steps in getting things done. Be fearless in bringing this to attention.
Always try to make it simpler.
• Minimize Handoffs
• Multi-skilled members would enable the team to run faster
• Avoid depending on others outside the team
• Remove unnecessary coordination between peers to get a task done
• Don’t do anything that does not create value.
• ‘Zero reporting’. Update your boards in real-time. Reduce communication overhead.
Create useful dashboards.
• Be mindful of critical paths to success. Ensure that resources are available much in
advance before execution
• Quality First approach reduces wastage. All activities driven towards getting it right for
the first time
• Help each other to be successful
Community
of
Excellence
for
Continuous
Learning
Sprint practices :
Conduct Sprint Rituals
and issue/risk
identification/resolution
Feature-driven
requirements elicitation
practices ​
Story boarding
practices
​
Behavior Driven Testing
& Test-first practices ​
Pattern-oriented design
standards
​
Design and coding style
guide ​
Pair programming
practices
​
Unit testing approaches
like static and dynamic
analysis
​
Automated test
generation practices ​
Automated regression
testing
​
Feature backlog
practices
​
Defect backlog and
resolution practices ​
Issue and risk item
identification and
resolution practices ​
Public code that anyone
can view and comment
on
​
Code versioning best
practices
Make/build guidelines ​
Quality
guideline/checklists
Right Measures drive Right Objectives
QA Measure Purpose?
Wastage Not Number of defects found but how early
you find defects
Escape Rate Number of defects that are not found /fixed
until the next sprint, release
Backlog How many sprints of Backlog are mapped to
Roadmaps

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  • 2. Challenges in GCCs • High attrition rates and Burnout • Inefficient processes and resource utilization • Personality related challenges: Diverse Needs, engagement levels & Work styles • Misaligned performance metrics • Lack of continuous improvement culture • Reality Check? • Lower productivity • Challenges in GCCs Challenges in GCCs • Increased operational costs • Disengaged employees
  • 3. Our Objectives • Enhance Performance • Build High Performance Culture • Leadership Development • Use Lean & Agile Principles to bridge the gap from High Performance to Leadership Development
  • 4. Solution Approach with Lean Principles • Understand True Customer Value • Focus on what employees and clients genuinely value, prioritizing activities that drive engagement and productivity. • Prioritize employee well-being and engagement, focusing on tasks that bring personal and professional fulfillment. • Map & Identify Inefficiencies • Analyze and optimize workflows to identify inefficiencies, remove bottlenecks, and streamline handoffs to reduce workload pressure • Flow Creation for better Task Load management • Establish balanced workloads and reduce bottlenecks to help manage stress levels and prevent burnout. • Pull System Implementation • Reduce overload & along with employees competence, mental & emotional capacity • Continuous Improvement • Build a culture that encourages continuous feedback and supports mental health, fostering a resilient, engaged workforce.
  • 5. Drive Key Outcomes • Performance Metrics • Reduced operational costs, improved KPIs, and streamlined workflows. • Employee Retention • Enhanced job satisfaction and engagement, leading to lower attrition. • Agility and Competitiveness • GCCs become more adaptable and aligned with business goals.
  • 6. How Lean Processes Help? • Increased Efficiency • Value Stream Mapping reduces unnecessary tasks, saving time and resources. • Helps cut down non-essential tasks, easily workload pressures and reducing mental strain • Improved Engagement • Customer Value Focus aligns employees' tasks with meaningful outcomes, enhancing job satisfaction and personal fulfilment • Reduced Bottlenecks • Flow Creation allows for balanced workloads, preventing burnout and reducing attrition. • Enhanced Agility • Pull System enables timely task prioritization, aligning with current demand and improving responsiveness. • Sustained Improvement • Continuous Improvement Culture promotes a proactive approach to performance management.
  • 7. Solution Approach • Customer Value: Focus on well-being and engagement in career paths. • Value Stream Mapping: Define skill-building steps for leadership. • Flow Creation: Simplify transition to management roles. • Pull System: Provide on-demand leadership resources. • Continuous Improvement & Mental Health: Supportive culture prepares engineers for management demands.
  • 8. 8 Brief History 1900 2000 1980 1960 1940 1920 Frederick Taylor – Scientific Managemen t Henry Ford – Production Line Walter Schewhart – Statistical Quality Control Joseph Juran – Quality Control 191 0 193 0 1950 197 0 1990 War triggered Mass Production Edward Deming – PDSA Rebuild Post War Japan Hundreds of companies world-wide start to adopt Lean 6 Sigma John Krafcik & Jim Womak Coin the term ‘Lean’ Taiichi Ohno - Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-scale Production TQM Starts to be widely used Jack Welch Make 6 Sigma central to the business strategy at GE Crosby – Zero Defects Motorola coin the term Six Sigma
  • 9. Lean is not …. all about headcount reduction …. a project management framework …. a rigid set of rules …. the responsibility of specific individuals only …. just for manufacturing …. not about working harder, but working smarter
  • 10. Key Lean Principles & Thinking • Amalgamation of tools and techniques • Enables the organization to maximize customer value while minimizing waste • A Management philosophy • Empowers staff deliver changes that facilitate systematic continuous improvement • Set of defined principles • Standardized and simplify processes to enable efficient and effective flow of work through the organization that minimizes delays and rework • Strategy Deployment • Top down enabled, bottom up delivered
  • 11. How are lean companies different? • Lean companies • Systematic continuous improvement • Structured framework and tools set • Sustainable changes • Effects build on each other • Address the root cause • Long-term permeant fixes • Traditional companies • Irregular improvement drives • Unstructured approach • Lack sustainability • Improvements effects decline • Focus on the symptom • Look for work arounds Effectiveness
  • 12. 12 The pursuit of perfection via a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste through continuous improvement of the Value Stream, enabling the product or information to flow at a rate determined by the pull of the customer 1. Value 2. Value Strea m 3. Flow 4. Pull 5. Seek Perfection 5 Principles of Lean Wasteful Practices Core Concepts of Lean
  • 13. What Zero (s) do we value? • Zero scope creep • Zero Defects • Minimal to Zero Testing • Zero Reporting • Zero Wastage • Zero Conflicts| One alignment – does not mean no fierce conversations. All of us have one common goal • Zero Attrition
  • 14. Basic Hygiene Architecture simplicity with end-to-end tool chain Think Left Shift. Use BDD / TDD. Don’t have code that is not testable Definition of Done – peer code review and demonstrable + QA signoff. Use Lint over coding standards and adhere to best practices. • Remove unnecessary code. Test Cases as important as Code Make regression testing light – Use Automation QA Just don’t be Agile – Be Lean
  • 15. Agile Release Planning • Agile release planning is a product management method based on batching iterations (sprints or set of sprints). • Planning incremental releases of a product. Delivering value incrementally. • By focusing on the short term and repeating the process, you can adapt better and progress faster. • You may have more than ONE assembly line/scrum delivering roadmap items • In Agile release planning, you prepare for staged releases and then break those down into several different sprints or iterations. • Every sprint item ends with a new product increment but that does not mean a release happens every sprint. • Release planning helps you plan which product increments gets released to the market and when
  • 16. Track your Burndown • Scrum Burn Down shows how a sprint plan is delivered. • Release Burn Down shows how roadmap items are delivered. • Helps you track the progress from sprint to sprint • Aids to anticipate if the relevant product backlog items can be delivered on time and budget (or how long it will take and how much it will cost), • And to make the necessary adjustments, such as, • Reduce or remove a feature, or • Add a new team member to the team.
  • 17. Deliverin g on- time is a promise • Delivering a product goals/roadmaps can be challenging. That’s why you are here. • Break your goals – release maps into smaller milestones and sub-projects • Setup assembly lines for each of your sub-projects. • Focus on to deliver your immediate milestone while you are mindful of next milestones ahead. • Re-evaluate your goals at periodic intervals • To check whether they are realistic; validate your estimates continuously • If something is taking longer than planned • Re-evaluate where you went wrong ? Project itself is a problem child or planning/estimation. • What got missed? • If it is planning/estimation, reach out to your stakeholders? • Different date? • What is the feature/functionality that can be pulled out? • However, arriving on time is a higher priority? Why? Are you missing a connection? What else will suffer? • If it is the project? Conduct a huddle. If you cannot have a resolution? Conduct a bigger huddle with more stakeholders?
  • 18. T-(minus) Program Tool ‘T-’ invaluable tool used to assist leadership, Product Owners, and development teams in delivering their work-items A T-minus or countdown schedule is a list of every task required in order to deliver the release/ roadmap items for business. The development team has to deliver compendium of roadmaps as a goal to the business. The objective of using the T-minus schedule is to ensure that every roadmap has been addressed prior to substantial completion of release. Each task identified on the T-minus schedule is assigned to a scrum team that is responsible for that item. Within each scrum team, a staff member is assigned to “champion” – Scrum Master for each roadmap so that every roadmap on the schedule is being worked on and tracked. Weekly progress meetings (WSR) help ensure tasks are being completed on a timely basis. Microsoft Excel Worksheet
  • 19. Benefits of Shift Left Testing • Finding the defects early thereby reducing the cost of the project. • Testing continuously again and again to reduce defects in the end. • To automate everything and improve time to market. • To focus on customer requirements and improve the customer experience. • Focus on things that matters • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. • Working software over comprehensive documentation. • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. • Responding to change over following a plan. • Fail Early, fail often Succeed early • aka: Test early and often • Enables Incremental release : frequent releases of small amounts of functionality • Reduce Time to Market • Improve Predictability • Optimize Wastage • Involve cross-functional testing • BA (+ customer voice) + Dev + Testers/QC + DevOps • Support Build Automation for CI CT CD
  • 20. Backlog Prioritizatio n Sprint Planning Design & Coding Run Against Test Cases Refractor, Integrate Component s Integration Testing Acceptance Training & Documents Deploymen t & Maintenanc e Planning L1 & L3 Ticket Reviews L3 Ticket Retrospective Dev, QA and Product DevOps Review Architecture Reviews Process & Best Practice Training Release Management Sprint Retrospection Process Metrics & Monitoring
  • 21. To Do [Dev Team] Decides the card to be picked for development [QA Team] Performs action on test plan, required test data [PO] Grooming Session with Dev & QA Team [QA & TL] Requirements are Atomic & less dependence on other Tickets Acceptance Criteria [Sign Off] [Scrum Master] Story Pointing using Poker Planning Scrum Master & PO KTLO / Backlog & Integration Team IN Progress QC Ready In QC Done Dev QA QA Lead TL Arch [PO] Reviews QA Test Cases [Sign Off] [QA] Test case [Sign Off] QA Reviews Dev Adherence [QA] Smoke Testing [Arch] Assess regression impact , performance impact, security impact [Sign Off] Scrum Lead Dev QA [QA] Automation Test execution Build Acceptance Test execution If fail [Arch] Dev RCA assessment if there is a regression defect [Dev] Dev testing or fix sprint regression defects If Pass [PO] Sprint Functional Demo to Dev Stakeholders Release notes Release communication Update User Guide [Training] [Scrum Master] Tags Release in Jira Conduct Release retrospective [Devops] Release version details EXIT ENTR Y Groomed & Story Pointed Sprint Plan Prioritized Backlog Tagged to active or future sprint Impacted modules are listed Code Analyzer results and coding guidelines adherence Dev testing results in Dev-INT environment in JIRA Regression Test results update in JIRA JIRA updated with build and environment details with status change and resolution as fixed Ticket Sign off by QA Lead Release sign off by PO [DEV] TDD Test Cases in GWT Development as per Coding Guidelines & Standards [Sign Off] 100% Dev Test Coverage [Incl.. Code Analyzer] [TL] Code Walk Thru [Sign Off] Code check-in to right branch after Dev Integ- Testing with Dev Build # 10X – Dev Process Dev Unit Testing results in JIRA Picked up card with resolution as Development QA logs defect QA continues Regression Testing and PO Demo Arch Scrum Master & PO Devop s QA Lead
  • 22. What do we mean by being Lean? • People over processes. Meaningful activities over scrum ceremonies. • Think ahead. All battle plans are useless but when in doubt plan before execution. • Don’t code unless you own the requirement. • Minimize WIP items: Try as much as possible to work on ONE ticket at a time • Prioritize Right – Focus on creating value to the customer. Just be the customer while prioritizing • Remove wasteful steps in getting things done. Be fearless in bringing this to attention. Always try to make it simpler. • Minimize Handoffs • Multi-skilled members would enable the team to run faster • Avoid depending on others outside the team • Remove unnecessary coordination between peers to get a task done • Don’t do anything that does not create value. • ‘Zero reporting’. Update your boards in real-time. Reduce communication overhead. Create useful dashboards. • Be mindful of critical paths to success. Ensure that resources are available much in advance before execution • Quality First approach reduces wastage. All activities driven towards getting it right for the first time • Help each other to be successful
  • 23. Community of Excellence for Continuous Learning Sprint practices : Conduct Sprint Rituals and issue/risk identification/resolution Feature-driven requirements elicitation practices ​ Story boarding practices ​ Behavior Driven Testing & Test-first practices ​ Pattern-oriented design standards ​ Design and coding style guide ​ Pair programming practices ​ Unit testing approaches like static and dynamic analysis ​ Automated test generation practices ​ Automated regression testing ​ Feature backlog practices ​ Defect backlog and resolution practices ​ Issue and risk item identification and resolution practices ​ Public code that anyone can view and comment on ​ Code versioning best practices Make/build guidelines ​ Quality guideline/checklists
  • 24. Right Measures drive Right Objectives QA Measure Purpose? Wastage Not Number of defects found but how early you find defects Escape Rate Number of defects that are not found /fixed until the next sprint, release Backlog How many sprints of Backlog are mapped to Roadmaps