One of the core values of Apriorit ​​is Fulfillment :)

As a team leader, I try to ensure that members of the team are engaged, inspired and motivated by their tasks, enjoying their work. After all, everyone knows: better mood equals better performance.

And to do that I have to know each individual employee well, understand what motivates them and why. Plus, you need to constantly stay on the top and keep all motivational factors active and keep employee happy.

Well, I’ve discovered the amazing game Moving Motivators recently. This is a very simple and easy to learn game, allowing to keep you in the loop on what drives the team.

I play a bit modified version of this game:

The manager and an employee participate in the game. First, we put motivators in horizontal line based on our personal valuation: most important to the left, least important to the right. Then, vertically in three rows we sort our motivators based on their satisfaction.Satisfied motivators go in the first row, partially satisfied go in the second, and not satisfied go in the third row. It’s very important to be honest and open about this.

I play the MM game with co-workers about every other months. And this allows me to:

• learn the basic motivators directly from the employee instead of making assumptions;
• learn what motivators are left unsatisfied and understand the problem;
• identify steps for correcting motivation-related problems;
• get ​​to know each other better, deepen personal connection with an employee;
• monitor the dynamic and constantly stay aware of the motivation level of employees.

This game is also useful for quickly entering a new team or starting work with a new employee.

Try to get closer to your personnel, take care of their motivation and engagement, and then your team will better perform and produce maximum result.

Learn more about our dedicated teams here

What We Do

As a team at Apriorit, we always pursue a common goal — to deliver a high-quality product on time.

Any delays we may have are mainly due to the insufficient quality of the product.

That is we find more bugs than we were supposed to, and spend time on fixing them and stabilizing the build, thereby pushing back the delivery time.

In an attempt to solve this issue, we wondered how we can go about preventing and detecting bugs from the earliest point possible.

Thus, we developed our process based on communication and co-operation between developers and testers.

The main goal is to improve the product quality, reduce the need for fixes, and make sure that the product is delivered on time.

Let’s discuss the process in greater detail:

1. Establishing clear Acceptance criteria and discussing them with developers at early stages of the project, preferably before implementing any features.

This is simple, but powerful measure. Acceptance criteria allow developers to understand how exactly the product / feature should work, how end-user will use them, and thus, how it should be best implemented from a technical standpoint. Joint consideration of Acceptance criteria allow the tester and the developer to share an equal understanding of the final product.

Thus, you increase the possibility that the developer will release a version for testing without bugs that critically impact Acceptance criteria.

2. Getting developers to review test documentation. This is a really useful step which does not require too much effort.

Both developers and testers stand to benefit from it. On the one hand, the developer sees how the product / feature will be tested and can work to meet test requirements during implementation. It will have a positive impact on the released versions quality. On the other hand, the developer can provide QA with useful cases they didn’t consider, improving the test coverage.

3. Getting QA to validate a technical solution. This step is useful when your QA has sufficient technical expertise.

It allowed you to prevent bugs and risk of repeatedly using the wrong technical solution.

The basic idea is that the developer chooses a technical solution, discusses and validates it with QA.

Building on their experience and expertise, QA engineers will not allow developers to choose solutions that will cause potential problems in cases that developers cannot foresee, such as performance, etc.

The team always has a common goal, and it must walk to this goal united. And the more communication and close interaction between developers and testers, the easier it is to achieve the goal.

You can read more about web application security testing here https://goo.gl/3LwhQG

https://www.apriorit.com/