I’m Fin Kingma. An Agile Tester with a strong fascination for the soft side of IT. Tools and techniques are great and can help you to deliver reliable quality, but I think real quality is part of the people who work on the product. And I believe that the most effective team on our planet is capable of delivering reliable software without even automating a single step.
But quality costs time and energy. And it makes no sense to make your processes more efficient, while your teams hardly know what they are doing. So let’s make sure that everyone knows how to truly add value to the work they do, then we can start focusing on the effectiveness.
And that’s why I say: ‘Screw efficiency! Let’s focus on what really matters. ‘