Implementing Efficiencies within your Team’s SDLC

Imagine if you could add more time to your delivery schedule, where would you spend it? Although we can’t add more hours to our day, we can find time by discovering inefficiencies in our current SDLC management approach. Many of us feel like there is never enough time to complete everything we wanted in a given sprint or cycle. We plan for the best-case scenario, but undoubtedly, something happens that cause us to feel like we “could have done more.” In this session, Melissa will talk through five areas that may be causing inefficiencies in your overall approach. While Melissa shares her five, she will also discuss how to practically implement them and discuss metrics to consider for continuous improvement.

Workshop Takeaways:

• We will discuss the five areas that cause inefficiencies in the SDLC.
• Show how to address and/or replace them with a more modern approach.
• Walk through the playbook on each and deep dive in to the implementation of each.

Melissa Tondi | Quality Leadership Engineering at E*TRADE | Principal Consultant at Disrupt Testing
Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within software testing teams. She is in Quality Engineering leadership at E*TRADE and a Principal Consultant at Disrupt Testing, where she assists companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software—from design to delivery and everything in between. In her software test and quality engineering careers, Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture – and uses the Greatest Common Denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways in which team members can assess, implement and report on day to day activities so the gap between need and value is as small as possible.