AGILE ENGINEERING & QUALITY
Agile Engineering and Testing Strategies
Build quality into every stage of delivery through modern engineering practices, continuous testing, effective automation, and meaningful measurement.
COURSE AT A GLANCE
A practical approach to built-in quality
Duration
One day
Delivery
On-site at your organization
Format
Instructor-led learning, collaborative discussion, and implementation planning
Quality from the start
Integrate testing and review throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Faster feedback
Use engineering practices and automation to surface issues earlier.
Actionable improvement
Translate best practices into a realistic plan for your environment.
FROM FINAL INSPECTION TO CONTINUOUS QUALITY
Quality is not a phase at the end.
Traditional testing often occurs too late, after key decisions have been made and defects have become expensive to correct. Agile engineering and testing move quality activities earlier and distribute responsibility across the entire delivery team.
This full-day course provides a practical review of the practices that make continuous quality possible. Participants explore application lifecycle management, Agile engineering, testing strategy, automation, measurement, and the organizational changes needed to put those practices to work.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Integrate engineering and testing throughout delivery.
01
See the whole lifecycle
Understand how planning, development, testing, release, and feedback work together.
02
Build quality in
Apply engineering, testing, and automation practices that create faster feedback.
03
Plan the improvement
Select useful measures, identify priorities, and create a realistic path forward.
COURSE AGENDA
Connect quality practices across the delivery system.
The course can be tailored to your organization’s lifecycle, technical environment, testing approach, tools, and current quality challenges.
01
Application lifecycle management
- Quality across the product lifecycle
- Cross-functional collaboration and shared ownership
- Traceability without unnecessary documentation
- Definition of Done and release readiness
02
Agile engineering practices
- Continuous integration and fast feedback
- Test-driven and behavior-driven approaches
- Refactoring and sustainable design
- Code review, collaboration, and collective ownership
03
Agile testing strategies
- Whole-team responsibility for quality
- Testing throughout the iteration
- Risk-based, exploratory, and acceptance testing
- Balancing functional and nonfunctional quality
04
Test automation
- Selecting the right tests to automate
- Unit, service, integration, and user-interface testing
- Automation within continuous integration
- Maintaining reliable and valuable test suites
05 & 06
Measurement, metrics, and implementation
Measurement and metrics: Use cycle time, defect trends, escaped defects, test effectiveness, and other meaningful indicators without creating vanity metrics or counterproductive targets.
Implementation: Assess the current environment, identify the highest-value improvements, clarify ownership, and develop a practical roadmap for adoption.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For technical and delivery professionals responsible for quality
Test Engineers, Test Analysts, Quality Assurance Specialists, Software Developers, Project Managers, Test Managers, Test Lab Managers, and Configuration Managers.
CUSTOMIZED ON-SITE DELIVERY
Work from your actual engineering environment
This course is designed for on-site delivery and can be tailored to your application lifecycle, technology, testing practices, automation tools, quality measures, and organizational priorities.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dan Tousignant
Dan is a lifelong project manager and trainer with extensive experience managing software development projects. He helps organizations transition project teams and leadership to Agile ways of working through practical coaching and training grounded in real delivery experience.
Dan has more than 20 years of experience leading strategic projects, managing software development budgets of up to $50 million, overseeing multimillion-dollar outsourced development efforts, and working with leaders across industries.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has earned the credentials of Project Management Professional, Professional Scrum Master, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and Professional Scrum Developer.
Ready to make quality a continuous part of delivery?
Bring the course on-site and tailor the discussion to your engineering practices, testing challenges, automation environment, and improvement priorities.