Agility and Colocation: How do they work in tandem?<\/strong><\/p>\nAgile teams work best in a colocated scenario as they require first hand face to face communication. Due to the small iteration cycle, there is less time to seek clarifications and resolve issues. Testing starts early, as soon as the code is stable, and continues as coding progresses. In such a situation where the code is evolving even as testing progresses, it is imperative that the QA and the development team collaborate and work as a single team. Colocation facilitates this.<\/p>\n
Since an agile project develops the software in multiple iterations, the size of the development and testing team is generally small and streamlined. This mitigates the pain of identifying and on-boarding skilled resources locally. Release cycles are small which means there is very less time to manually test each and every functionality. From unit testing and above, testing is automated as much as possible and manual testing is limited to detecting bugs in the code and missing functionalities. This too serves to limit the size of the team required to execute the project.<\/p>\n
The agile methodology makes it possible to develop the product with a limited number of skilled and qualified resources. The only constraint is the necessity to have resources with a good working knowledge of the system in order to adapt to changes, which is a natural part of the agile methodology.<\/p>\n
So if you are thinking AGILE, you need to think colocated QA staffing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an earlier article, we saw how colocated testing teams can bring greater ROI for an organization (Colocated Testing Teams \u2013 What are they? And how do I benefit?). On the flip side, many industry insiders argue that building a colocated team with the necessary skills and experience is difficult due to lack of availability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3704,743],"tags":[958,1122,1230,1231,1399,1400,1401,1597,1599],"ppma_author":[3736],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staffing","category-qa-staffing","tag-colocated-software-testing-services","tag-gallop-solutions-staffing","tag-local-qa-staffing","tag-local-staffing-agency","tag-qa-staffing-philadelphia","tag-qa-staffing-services-pennsylvania","tag-qa-staffing-usa","tag-specialised-qa-staffing-services","tag-specialist-testing-resource-staffing"],"authors":[{"term_id":3736,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"Cigniti Technologies","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/120X120-1.png","url2x":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/120X120-1.png"},"user_url":"http:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/","last_name":"Technologies","first_name":"Cigniti","job_title":"","description":"Cigniti is the world\u2019s leading AI & IP-led Digital Assurance and Digital Engineering services company with offices in India, the USA, Canada, the UK, the UAE, Australia, South Africa, the Czech Republic, and Singapore. We help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey across various stages of digital adoption and help them achieve market leadership."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}