Janet Gregory is a Calgary-based consultant, specializing building quality systems. Her passion is promoting agile quality processes in software development.

She is co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009).

Janet has helped introduce agile practices into companies as tester or coach, and has successfully transitioned traditional test teams into the agile world. Her focus is working the business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. She practices Lean principles, Extreme Programming, and SCRUM. Her experience as a QA Manager both in a traditional and in agile environments gives her an understanding of the issues faced by most teams. She has introduced lasting change into organizations.

Janet has presented on agile testing, and the changes needed by an organization to make a lasting change at conferences, workshops and user groups sessions. She is active in the Agile Testing community, and is part of the organizing committee for the Calgary Agile Methods User group, and works closely with the Software Quality discussion group in Calgary. Janet has a degree in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, an Information Management Certificate from the University of Calgary, Scrum Master Certification, as well as Quality Management Certification from the ASQ.

Check out Janet's blog: janetgregory.blogspot.com