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By Jody Harrison and Tashani Davidson While agile methodologies are traditionally associated with IT and software development, the Agile specialists at QualityWorks are expanding beyond those traditional limits. In this article, we will explore how Human Resources (HR) and Sales can embrace agility to drive success and adaptability in their respective domains and showcase the…

We'll explore the pros and cons of outsourcing and upskilling as viable talent strategies for resolving skill shortages within organizations.

What is Agile? Are you doing it right? How we can practice agility to create more efficient, productive and collaborative teams.

Scrum Masters play a critical role in ensuring goal alignment, identifying risks, removing bottlenecks, and keeping sprint backlogs on track. Ask these often overlooked questions to set your agile team up for success. By Sheyinka Harry As the servant leader for an agile team, the Scrum Master does much more than facilitate meetings and remove…

By Sheyinka Harry As the liaison between the business/customer and the team, the Product Owner is innately responsible for creating the Product Vision and Mission, as well as the resulting Product Backlog. When creating these artifacts, Product Owners spend a great portion of their time in meetings with: The stakeholders to capture their needs; The…

By Sheyinka Harry As stakeholders, we are sometimes so focused on pushing our teams to get the product out that we lose sight of the full scope of the role we play in the product delivery process. Being a stakeholder on a project isn’t just about making new product backlog requests or attending the demos…

Bringing Highly Qualified, Trained Experts From Varied Backgrounds to the Forefront of Quality Assurance   The software testing industry exudes potential on all fronts. There is more promise for moving up in the field than in almost any other industry. The average starting salary for a Quality Assurance Tester is $40,000 – $60,000 per year.…

Kingston, Jamaica, April 11, 2018    QualityWorks, international software consulting firm, partnered with PeopleCoach, Agile training company, to host the first-ever Agile Transformation Workshop in Kingston, Jamaica in March 2018. The unique workshop, led by leading expert in cognitive Agile solutions, D Ray Freeman, focused on using a people-centred approach to optimize team performance in an…

By Shantel Stewart-Gayle   A Product Owner has various responsibilities and the efficient application of this role across an organization or during a project tends to be a challenge. With this being said, there are several pitfalls that result from this. In addressing some of these pitfalls, best practices can be derived resulting in the…