Close automated acceptance testing properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Designing and Running Automated Acceptance Tests Within the Agile Delivery Cycle
Practical training in automated acceptance testing, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for automated acceptance testing that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Most recovery effort on this area of project and portfolio delivery is spent on problems that were visible early. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the project and portfolio delivery discipline has actually achieved. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in automated acceptance testing rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The difficulty is not agreeing that this aspect of project and portfolio delivery matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. It is written for people who have to make the practice within project and portfolio delivery work with the resources they already have. Mature organisations treat automated acceptance testing as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. The course covers this part of project and portfolio delivery at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the project and portfolio delivery discipline that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Structure records of automated acceptance testing so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Adapt recognised practice on automated acceptance testing to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Assess whether automated acceptance testing should continue at each decision gate.
Plan the handover of automated acceptance testing so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Plan handover and benefit realisation for automated acceptance testing.
Manage contracts and suppliers delivering parts of automated acceptance testing.
Who Should Attend
Contract and procurement staff supporting automated acceptance testing.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing automated acceptance testing.
Managers in small and medium organisations who own automated acceptance testing alongside other duties.
Technical leads delivering work packages within automated acceptance testing.
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for automated acceptance testing.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of automated acceptance testing directly.
Course Modules
Automated acceptance testing: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Estimating automated acceptance testing without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Establish the boundary of automated acceptance testing and record what sits outside it.
- Write the scope statement for automated acceptance testing including explicit exclusions.
- Register the risks to automated acceptance testing with owner, probability and impact.
- Hold a lessons session on automated acceptance testing while memory is accurate.
Session 2Handing over automated acceptance testing and proving the benefit
- Review whether automated acceptance testing is aligned with the objectives of the project.
- Plan handover of automated acceptance testing to the team that will operate it.
- Define acceptance criteria for automated acceptance testing in advance.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to automated acceptance testing.
Automated acceptance testing: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for automated acceptance testing that is actually needed
- Define the decision gates for automated acceptance testing and what evidence each requires.
- Review at each gate whether automated acceptance testing should continue at all.
- Map stakeholders of automated acceptance testing by influence and current level of support.
- Agree what will be standardised in automated acceptance testing and what will not.
Session 2Testing automated acceptance testing before relying on it
- Set out how exceptions to automated acceptance testing are requested and approved.
- Confirm that reporting on automated acceptance testing reaches the people who can act.
- Set the review interval for automated acceptance testing and who attends.
- Set the change control process for automated acceptance testing and require cost and time impact.
Automated acceptance testing: progress measurement and early warning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering automated acceptance testing when it is behind
- Manage supplier performance on automated acceptance testing against contract, not goodwill.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of automated acceptance testing.
- Archive the decision record for automated acceptance testing so successors understand it.
- Measure progress on automated acceptance testing by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Session 2Measuring progress on automated acceptance testing honestly
- Build the competence framework that supports automated acceptance testing.
- Verify six months later that changes to automated acceptance testing have held.
- Build reporting on automated acceptance testing that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about automated acceptance testing.
Automated acceptance testing: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing out automated acceptance testing and capturing what was learned
- Identify the critical path through automated acceptance testing and the float elsewhere.
- Compare resource demand from automated acceptance testing against other commitments.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in automated acceptance testing.
- Close out actions on automated acceptance testing rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Session 2Pricing every change to automated acceptance testing
- Arrange the handover of automated acceptance testing so capability survives staff changes.
- Prepare the recovery plan for automated acceptance testing before it is needed.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for automated acceptance testing.
- Confirm that those complying with automated acceptance testing understand why it exists.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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