Presenter: Jenny Bramble @jennydoesthings

Do you feel like you’re under the gun to test everything when your team rolls out a new feature? Do you worry that your teammates don’t understand why you choose to test the items you do? Are there moments in your life where you deeply question if you can successfully complete the testing requirements of a sprint? Do you just really like cats? If you answered yes to any of those items–this is the talk for you. We will define and discuss risk as a tangible metric, striving to break it down into components that you can use to talk to developers, product owners, business people, and any other stakeholders. Having a common language of what risk is and what it’s made of allows us to decide what we should test and when we should test it. We will also talk about building a risk matrix and why we should even bother. You’ll come out of the talk with a helpful language that you can use to communicate more clearly and an understanding of risk assessment. Included will be a heavy dose of jokes, storytelling, anecdotes, and pictures of my cat Dante.

Jenny ended up in a quality assurance career after coming up through support and DevOps, cutting her teeth on that interesting role that acts as the ‘translator’ between customer requests from support and the development team. Her love of support and the human side of problems lets her find a sweet spot between empathy for the user and empathy for my team. She’s done testing, support, or human interfacing for most of her career. She finds herself happiest when she’s making an impact on other people–whether it’s helping find issues in applications, leading scrum, speaking at events, or just grabbing a coffee and chatting.

Getting there:
Techstars Atlanta office is located on the 9th floor (west) of Ponce City Market. It can be accessed using the elevator bank located closest to West Elm.

Thanks to…
Thanks to Sauce Labs for sponsoring food and MoQuality for hosting at their offices.