Lisa Crispin + Allison Lazarz

Let’s Go [physical- and digital-] Dumpster Diving - Agile-style!

June 14 @ 9:30 - 10:50am EDT / 15:30 - 16:50 CEST

How a trash sort could save you (and your team) money, and save the planet!

An at-home trash sort is easy to do and, if you apply some simple agile principles to the process, you’ll easily see how you can start living more sustainably! Use the concept of “sprint cycles” to assess your trash on a regular basis. This session will go over a specific method for sorting and categorizing your waste. Next, do a mini retrospective to determine what’s going well with your garbage, and what could use improvements! Use this data to inform your purchasing habits during your next “sprint cycle.”

Then repeat!

The same principles apply to our digital waste at work. Explore the different kinds of digital waste your team can remove from your S3 storage, log files and more.

Learn how to save money, how to reduce the amount of single-use items you purchase, and how your actions can positively impact the Earth.

Key Learnings:

  1. Use agile concepts to guide waste reduction at home and at work

  2. Sort through your trash - physical and digital - to observe trends and patterns!

  3. Discover ways to minimize your dependency on single-use items

  4. Gain clear, actionable steps for waste reduction

  5. Understand how small actions at home and at work can make a big impact globally

About the Speakers

Lisa Crispin is an independent consultant, author and speaker based in Vermont, USA. Together with Janet Gregory, she co-authored Holistic Testing: Weave Quality Into Your Product; Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction; More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team; and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams; and the LiveLessons “Agile Testing Essentials” video course. She and Janet co-founded a training company offering two live courses world-wide: “Holistic Testing: Strategies for agile teams” and “Holistic Testing for Continuous Delivery”. Lisa uses her long experience working as a tester on high-performing agile teams to help organizations assess and improve their quality and testing practices, and succeed with continuous delivery. She’s active in the DORA community of practice.

Allison Lazarz lives and works in Vermont, USA. She’s been a software tester with Cox Automotive for over 11 years, holding various testing roles. Her current title is Software Test Engineer. She focuses on writing and implementing test plans, and using javascript-based testing frameworks to write automated tests when possible. In addition to a passion for software testing, she also has a passion for sustainability. She’s constantly looking for ways to reduce, reuse and recycle to reduce physical waste, and has recently started applying these concepts to digital waste as well!