Left Shift Breakfast Seminar with John Ferguson Smart

##Presenting # **John Ferguson Smart** ##in association with TechMeetp.Space # **Left-Shift - Bringing Requirements Discovery and QA Together to Deliver Software that makes a Difference** ##by the end of the seminar you will... # **Leave with an Accelerated Software Delivery Self-evaluation Checklist to Help Apply these Principles in Your Own Teams** ##Continental Breakfast 08:00 / Seminar 09:00 (sharp!) . **Target Audience: Product Owners, Delivery Managers, Project Managers** . Starting with a continental breakfast, John Ferguson Smart, international speaker and well-known author of “BDD in Action”, will talk about how you can multiply your team’s productivity and innovation by engaging the creativity of the whole team from the outset. Drawing from his long experience helping teams deliver better software faster and more effectively, John will discuss the latest practical techniques drawn from Behaviour Driven Development, DevOps, Test Automation, combined with research in Psychology and Team Performance, to show you how to get the best out of your teams. Over this deep dive two-hour seminar, John will cover: The new roles of business analysts, developers and testers; How to engage the creativity of the whole team during requirements discovery and planning activities; How to combine informal and formal requirements definition techniques to balance creativity, innovation and accuracy; How testers can play a vital role in not only detecting defects but preventing them; How test automation needs to happen during, not after, the sprint, and how you can achieve this; The role of test automation in a DevOps world At the end of the seminar, attendees will leave with an Accelerated Software Delivery self-evaluation checklist to help apply these principles in your own teams. ##**REGISTRATION EXTRAS** In addition to the extreme benefits of attending this workshop, you will also receive priority entry to John's meetup on the evening of Tuesday 23rd January [**The Creativity Conundrum**](https://ti.to/techmeetupspace/evening-meetup-with-john-ferguson-smart-the-creativity-conundrum-jan-2018/) (subject to availability so don't delay - book now!) ##PEOPLE WHO BOOKED A PLACE ON THIS EVENT ALSO BOOKED Wednesday 24th January- Workshop - [**The Fast Track from User Stories to High Value Software**](https://ti.to/techmeetupspace/The-Fast-Track-from-User-Stories-to-High-Value-Software-with-john-ferguson-smart-jan-2018/)