When Companies requires urgent assistance and guidance, sometimes all that is needed is a small amount of time from an external source to achieve some quick-wins and establish longer-term initiatives for future direction.

Grove Consultants offer short-term consultancy (usually between 1-3 days) looking at quick-wins for projects and thereby achieving immediate benefits from the consultancy and investment made by the company.

Examples of short-term assignments include:

• Support and advice in recruiting testers and test managers
• Production of practical metrics for testing
• Writing test policies and strategies
• Recommendations on risk based testing approaches
• Pragmatic guidance for test documentation
• Performing quality assessment of the product
• Advice and guidance of test automation
• Assistance with challenges of test management
• Applying Exploratory testing in a pragmatic way
• Providing key measures to demonstrate the value of testing to Senior Management
• How to transition testing into an agile project
• Are you really agile? Assessment of current processes.
• Practical use of test techniques
• Reviewing test conditions and test cases

Grove Consultants are committed to helping organisations help themselves. To do this effectively we suggest investing in some long-term consultancy. Rather than working for prolonged periods of time we have found that the most effective way of helping organisations is to have “short bursts” of consultancy over a longer period of time.

An example of this would be to purchase 10 days consultancy and spread the consultancy over 3 months. This provides opportunity for us to work more closely with you, providing improvement suggestions and seeing those take effect on the next visit.

One day at a time

“Don’t count the days – make the days count”

Our long term consultancy is a flexible package to meet your needs and can be scheduled to fit with your current priorities. We work with you to achieve success.

Examples of long-term assignments include:

• Performing testing health checks
• Effective test team building
• Improved estimation techniques for better planning
• Production of testing strategies
• Implementing effective static and dynamic techniques
• Pragmatic guidance for test processes
• Establishing quality test documentation
• Performing tool support audits for testing
• Undertake test improvement audits

"Mentoring is to support and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be."

Grove Consultants offer as part of their consultancy arm a mentoring programme, helping individuals achieve their potential within your organisation.

Mentoring is a powerful personal development and empowerment tool. It is an effective way of helping people to progress in their careers and is becoming increasing popular as its potential is realised. It is a partnership between two people (mentor and mentee) normally working in a similar field or sharing similar experiences. It is a helpful relationship based upon mutual trust and respect Grove consultants have found that mentoring individuals to be one of the most effective ways to achieve the full potential of the individuals

.Examples of mentoring include:

• Mentoring test managers for effective leadership
• Mentoring testers in test design and execution in the production and running of quality tests
• Mentoring Scrum masters as they adapt to an agile lifecycle
• Mentoring test automators, tool champions and testware architects in the most effective way to implement and use automation tools