Centers of Excellence paving way for Communities of Practice
Software testing as a function has evolved from being a merged function to an atomic state now. In the past, organizations used to have testing as part of development teams that resulted in challenges such as late involvement in projects, crunched testing time and so on. As a group, testers battled with lack of purpose and role clarity, diminished recognition and lack of voice. To overcome these challenges, organizations embarked on journey towards setting up dedicated testing functions that later emerged as Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE). TCoE was more organic in nature and were set-up with a focus to bring specific results with significant benefits. On a deeper level, they were set-up to achieve clear objectives – Repeatability, Predictability, Innovation, Scalability and Continuous Improvement. TCoE as a concept was fairly successful with mid to large-sized organization, especially where the projects were executed using traditional methodologies. They brought in benefits such...