TrainingConferencesAbout UsContact UsAdvertiseSQE.comRSS Feed

StickyMinds.com: brain food for building better software

Log In
 Clarify Your Search Criteria

Tips on Using Our Search Feature(s)
 
StickyMinds.com Home
ResourcesTopicsCommunityPowerPassBlogs
Home  >  Detail: Peanuts and Crackerjacks: What Baseball Taught Me about Metrics


Viewing Item 1 of 1692


Conference Material:
Peanuts and Crackerjacks: What Baseball Taught Me about Metrics
By Robert Sabourin, AmiBug.com Inc

Email This ContentGet a Short Link to This ContentAdd this item to your favorites list

Summary: Because people can easily relate to a familiar paradigm, analogies are an excellent way to communicate complex data. Rob Sabourin uses baseball as an analogy to set up a series of status reports to manage test projects, share results with stakeholders, and measure test effectiveness. For test status, different audiences—test engineers, test leads and managers, development managers, customers, and senior management—need different information, different levels of detail, and different ways of looking at data. So, what "stats" would you put on the back of Testing Bubble Gum cards? Testing Sports Page Standing tables? Game Score sheet? And up on the giant Scoreboard that is visible to everyone? In this entertaining and informative session, Rob shows real-world examples of baseball reports he has developed and discusses ways to use the information for better decisionmaking. See if your current test reports would get on base, hit a home run, or strike out!



This is exclusive PowerPass content. You must have a PowerPass to view this content.
What's a PowerPass?
 
 
About the Author Robert Sabourin has over twenty years of management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, he has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field and frequently writes and speaks at conferences on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. The author of I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children’s book, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University. 



 
Ads By Google
What's This?
 
 



Home   |   Resources   |   Topics   |   Community   |   PowerPass



© 2010 StickyMinds.com. All rights reserved.
StickyMinds.com is a division of Software Quality Engineering.
Privacy Policy    Terms & Conditions    Link to StickyMinds.com    Feedback


TechExcel, Inc.




STAREAST 


Better Software Conference