Delivery Methodology and Organisation Debt

Delivery Methodology and Test Approach

• Delivery Methodologies and Test Approach: with many organisations working in an agile methodology of some capacity of, say, two-week sprints, an effective Test Data Strategy also needs to be agile to be able to deliver to those same timelines.

Rich Jordan, highlights the importance of challenging your test team’s scope and also ensuring communication between the test team and those responsible for provisioning test data is sufficient. Usually, data can be shored up by having a good understanding of the system under test. 

A final thought for consideration is can you identify the delivery methodology your test teams are currently using and to what extent your Test Data Strategy aligns to it?

Organisation Debt

• Organisational Debt: many organisations will struggle to maintain a good or up-to-date understanding of the data within their systems or how the data flows between their systems, especially in organisations that have legacy platforms or many systems that are highly coupled.

Rich Jordan, suggests this level of organisational tech debt can be paid-down, leading to a better understanding of the changing systems and its data structures. It’s typically seen in organisations with legacy platforms or where many systems that are highly coupled. 

So beyond the regulatory ask, your organisation will need to do data analysis and profiling to accelerate the journey for paying-back organisational tech debt, but do you know where this technical debt exists in your organisation?