Ukrainian Lessons Learned: How to Build Continuous Testing and Project Management from the Trenches

On the 24th of February, life in Ukraine changed dramatically, and it hasn't stopped. Projects had to be delivered according to release schedules and Business Continuity Plans (BCP) had to be built in parallel with deploying shelters and evacuating teams to safe zones. Despite risk mitigation plans, the war was such a critical factor that the existing hierarchal management structure began to show inefficiency. As two Directors of Software Quality in a company with 14,000 employees in Ukraine, Maryna will share their approach to governance of software quality, release management, and team restructures, while also experiencing day-to-day changes during a time of significant uncertainty that affected testing. How do you combine a roadmap, alarms, bombs, stand ups, regression, exploratory testing, customer demos, and product increments during a time of war while keeping the safety of your staff a top priority? In this session, attendees will take a deep dive into bringing performance, building measurable testing framework, keeping solid quality gates, and handling customers' communications - all while literally in the trenches.