Sigurdur Birgisson is Quality Leader for the IKEA Planning Experiences. He drives quality strategies across all products, enabling development teams to deliver high quality software. With a background at Atlassian and Jayway, he coaches development teams on building quality from the start, rather than trying to test and fix things after the fact. As a speaker, he has presented at several international conferences: Agile 2012, CAST 2012, Agile testing days 2012 and Nordic testing days 2019 to name a few.
Quality cannot be tested in, it has to be built in, so ensuring the right quality needs get captured in delivery plans and requirements is one of the biggest challenges for software delivery, since people first started building software till today, and forever. But defining quality was never an easy task. Different people have different perspectives, needs and expectations, and the job of unifying...