Learn why treating testing as an end-of-cycle phase quietly breaks Agile delivery, and how shift-left quality builds quality in from requirements and design onward. Redesign a bottlenecked workflow and produce a Shift-Left Quality Checklist your whole team can apply at every stage of a story.
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The end-of-cycle testing bottleneck — free to watch, no account needed.
What you'll learn
- Explain why end-of-cycle testing creates bottlenecks and defects in Agile delivery
- Describe shift-left quality as building quality in rather than testing it in
- Apply a whole-team quality checklist across each stage of a story's lifecycle
- Redesign a phase-gated testing workflow around shifted-left quality activities
- Produce a one-page Shift-Left Quality Checklist for your team
Syllabus
Why End-of-Cycle Testing Fails
The end-of-cycle testing bottleneckFree preview
Shift-left — building quality in, not testing it in
The Whole-Team Quality Technique
Quality is a whole-team responsibility
A quality checklist across the story lifecycle
Applying Quality Engineering to Real IT Work
Embedding quality across the delivery pipeline
Case study — testers stuck as a separate phase
Making Quality Engineering Stick
Building your Shift-Left Quality Checklist
Common traps and quality anti-patterns to avoid