Today’s strategy versus tomorrow’s goals

Starting with the lean test canvas, you might end up with a list of activities people do in various roles and the times they do them. That is not bad. The visuals from this chapter and the previous one try to tie that back to risk and priority. Hopefully, you can find some way to get started, by adding a shared spreadsheet for emergent risk, taking a long list of test cases and turning them into a summary or creating a mind map. One company we worked with started with a list of perhaps 12 major pieces of functionality in the application, each with 5 to 10 sub-items. At the start, they simply had to identify which team was responsible for what parts of the application. With over 100 full-time staff on the project, the process took nearly three months. The last month ended with senior executives hounding teams at the end to take responsibility for the unclaimed parts of the application. Once that was done, management had each team...