QA/testing team decentralization is not going to help the company much .IT was not that successful in the past.Hence company had moved to centralized model . What is the point now again moving back to decentralized model
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the formation of the org really doesnt matter. Its the protectionist attitude within the org (dev org or qa org) that is the killer
Seperate QA is so 1990. With agile they need to be part of the team throughout the cycle. There does need to be a matrixed director overseeing thrle practice.
Ain't that a problem with the managers, not the model itself? We should not stop to improve if we see that it will be challenging. Long term it should be worth it anyway.
And what do You mean by biased?
If any of their behavior is bad for the company - they should be educated/aligned or eventually fired if resistant to change...
most of dev managers in bangalore are biased towards QA 's . hence decentralized model is not good
Most of the industry works in decentralized model. And we should also do it this way. It keeps the work and commitments more sane than keeping a separate org just for qa. Centralized model causes more issues than good. The only good reason - and a valid for some Sabre cases (Interact testing for example) - is keeping a separate org focused on E2E testing to make sure delivered features are supported by all layers of our system. But it is only a narrow 'use case'. Decentralized model is much better to keep the teams focused on common goals.