Suggested Leadership Actions

Inspect

• Review the composition of your teams. Do your teams contain the expertise needed to make the vast majority of decisions within the teams?

• Interview your team members to understand your teams’ de facto test organization (as opposed to what’s shown on the org chart). Are your teams effectively self-contained and doing their own testing, with or without embedded test specialists?

Adapt

• Based on the review of your team’s composition above, create a gap analysis that describes the skills that need to be developed in order for your teams to become self-managed.

• Create a plan to revise the composition of your teams and/or develop missing skills so that each team can make its own decisions and develop toward becoming truly self-managing.

• Make a plan to ensure the test function is incorporated as an integral part of your development teams.