I’ve noticed something across the teams I coach: when ad-hoc meetings pile up, work in progress tends to pile up with them. I wanted to know if that was a real pattern or something I was reading meaning into, so I went looking at what other people had observed and whether the reasoning held up. The more I sat with it, the more I think I had the causation backwards.
Having just finished an engagement with a client where the development practices include kanban and BDD. Kanban for us meant that we give priority to work on the right side of the board. So as a tester, I would rather spend my time doing some manual testing on a story that is in the QA queue, than writing automated acceptance tests for a story in the queue for Acceptance Tests.
