Kathy Iberle
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26 years 10 monthsKathy Iberle (www.kiberle.com) has over twenty years of experience in developing processes to plan and execute efficient development of high-quality products in a variety of fields, including the challenging area where hardware and software meet. She's worked in agile software development for over a decade, and has been practicing Lean Development for the past several years. Kathy worked for Hewlett-Packard for many years and is now the principal consultant and owner of the Iberle Consulting Group.
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Save Your Sanity: Planning During a Health Care Crisis A health care crisis can hit without warning, leaving you both nursing the patient and mired in seemingly endless bureaucracy. In this article, Kathy Iberle shares with us her experience dealing with an elderly uncle who suffered a stroke and how agile methods, like using a visual planning board, can help one prepare and be ready when disaster strikes. |
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Fix Your Agile Project by Taking a Systems View Kathy Iberle writes that when working on a project, you should take a systems view, which allows you to see the whole development system at once. When you put on your “systems view” glasses, you’ll see that you need to deal with the whole system, not just a single team’s part of it. |
| They Don't Care About QualityPeople often act as if quality is a singular, shining goal to which all products aspire. This assumption, however, can lead to disappointment, frustration, and even the adoption of ill-fitting practices in an attempt to be quality minded. And since different businesses define quality in different ways, Kathy Iberle shows you how businesses with similar goals can be grouped together into categorized "practice cultures," and how they can effectively share quality-inducing practices. | |
| Estimating Tester to Developer Ratios (or Not) Test managers often need to make an initial estimate of the number of people that will be required to test a particular product, before the information or the time to do a detailed task breakdown is available. One piece of data that is almost always available is the number of developers that are or will be working on the project in question. Common sense suggests that there is a relationship between the number of testers and the number of developers. This article presents a model that can be used in describing that relationship. (Editors note: Click here to read another paper on this topic, by Cem Kaner, Elisabeth Hendrickson, and Jennifer Smith-Brock.) |
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| Divide and Conquer: Making Sense Out of Test Planning The neophyte test planner is often overwhelmed by the complexity and scope of test planning. This paper presents several practical methods for dividing the testing into manageable pieces, based on the author's experience over ten years of testing a wide variety of products. |