Bucket list ✅ : I hired Jon Bach & paired test with him on a project for a client of Moolya. Here's how it panned out 👇
Jon Bach and I have a special connection. Beyond having been coached by James Bach & Michael Bolton on RST - we forged a really special connection. His ideas of how businesses can benefit from testing and my own journey in Moolya inspired me to architect Growth Driven Testing for our clients.
We decided to work together a decade ago and as it turns out we even role played this a decade ago https://lnkd.in/gbGPzBcd
Working with Jon & Esha Sinha challenged me. I went hands on after a decade. I felt a pressure to be able to stand up to his standards, help my client succeed, not fail my company and answer, "will my skills be rusty"?
Turns out that, Jon was my buddy who eased me into it. Jon laid a fantastic foundation for me to create value and growth for my client right in the first call. I built on top of it. We were testing a new age A.I. tool to help a certain segment of agencies to enable their staff to succeed. Jon and I balance skepticism and embracing A.I.
Jon acted like my angel reminding me of all good things I had spoken and demonstrated about testing in the past. This really helped me.
Now to our test strategy. We blended RST, SBTM, CDT, Open Book Testing (I will do one more post on this) and funnelled everything into Growth Driven Testing. Jon had a first hand view of me implementing Growth Driven Testing to our client in Moolya. Based on a press release from our client's CEO in the middle of our testing, we even updated out test strategy to suit the claims made. True agile!
We kept assessing coverage, kept finding new things & kept re-discovering the context. He would discover something I have not & I would discover something he has not.
All this is great but what did the client think at the end?
The client loved our work and the final presentation went kick ass. Jon and I - on our first call envisioned what the final presentation could be. We also did a pre-mortem with role plays. We did best case scenarios and worst case scenarios.
What stood out about Jon for me?
He is the epitome definition of a team member. He supported me and challenged me to only make me better. He is great at amplifying the signal and keeping the signal to noise ratio in check.
What we accomplished together?
We visualised testing, bugs, value, roadmap towards quality and offered it with simplicity to our client. In short period of time - we built test data and automation to enable us to focus on exploratory testing and delivering growth value of testing to our client. Thanks to Santosh & Sourabh for infra help as well. All testing was human.
I thought I had ticked the bucket list only to discover that the bucket has expanded. Looking forward to bring many more experts to help in building cool testy stuff that we are building in Moolya and Bugasura
Jon, I am, also because of you.