What are we doing now?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines strategy as “a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.”
When we talk about strategy, we mean the plan of action (plus policies) to achieve an aim. In our case, the plan of action will cover what we will do (and how we will do it) when testing software, with the goal of providing-makers with information about management’s intent, so that the technical team, and even the person doing the testing, can make decisions on how to move forward. In other words, part of the strategy might be to push the decision-making activities into the team. This eliminates the need to wait for someone external to decide what to do when a bug is found. The more we can push decisions into real time and eliminate waiting, the more we’ll improve system performance. When we write “decision making”, that doesn’t have to be a big thing; it doesn’t need to be deciding...