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Learn BDD and Test Automation from the author of BDD In Action!

Learn real-world BDD and agile test automation from a renown industry expert and author John Ferguson Smart. And set yourself apart from your peers.

The Serenity Dojo Expansion Programme teaches testers how to write powerful and scaleable test automation frameworks and deliver high quality automated tests faster using cutting edge learning science and the revolutionary Flipped Testing model.

"The best investment I have ever made in my career" - Chrissie, Lead QA Engineer

The goal of the programme is to give you the tools and the mindset shift to transform the way both you and your organisation approach test automation and software delivery as a whole.

"It's helping with my current work straight away" - Fayaz, QA Manager

The course gives you the principles you need to write your own Test Collaboration Framework, an automation framework that facilitates and enhances collaboration within the team and between the team and the business. The program also shows you how to implement BDD effectively within your organisation using a simple 6-stage process.

"This training program is the Real Deal" - David Leon, QA Engineer

Using a powerful combination of self-paced online training, fast feedback and live mentoring and coaching, the Serenity Expansion Programme gives students a proven path to mastering agile test automation.

"This course is for anyone who is serious about their test automation career" - Shazia, SDET

Book a call today to see if the programme would be a good fit for you!

Ask John To Help Your Teams Grow

John runs a comprehensive series of very popular training workshops to help teams adopt BDD and other modern agile delivery practices. John uses a pragmatic, tailored approach to training that ensures your teams are up and running faster!

All of these workshops are run as public courses or onsite courses that can be tailored to the needs of your team. Our onsite courses can be run either physically onsite, or remotely using a virtual classroom. Get in touch for more details!

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Public (classroom) courses

Public training courses in London and Europe

Onsite or "virtual-classroom" training

Onsite training for your team within your offices or remotely via a “virtual classroom”

Online BDD and Test Automation Training

Professional development and test automation practices anytime, anywhere.

The Serenity Dojo mentoring programme

The most comprehensive training and mentoring programme in BDD, Test Automation and Software Craftsmanship on the market.

Wakaleo Consulting and the XSCALE Alliance – Advancing Agile in UK!

Wakaleo Consulting is proud to be associated with the XSCALE Alliance, a global community aimed at developing Agile Organisations and identifying and sharing Agile principles and best practices.

Workshop	Target Audience				Key Outcomes
Workshop	Business & Product Owner	BAs	Developers	Testers	Key Outcomes
BDD Bootstrap					The best way for teams starting on new projects to learn the right practices and tools to succeed from the word “go!”
eXponential Business Agility (XBA) Practitioner					Learn to budget, prioritise and plan features based on business outcomes and return on investments
Low Tech, High Impact Sprint Planning					The fast track from user stories to executable acceptance criteria and low-defect, high value software.
The Power of Collaborative Requirements Discovery					Learn to work effectively with delivery teams using BDD
BDD in Action: Mastering Agile Requirements					Learn how to use BDD within a team to deliver higher value, higher quality features sooner
BDD in Action: BDD, TDD and Clean Coding					Higher quality code with fewer defects that is easier to understand and maintain
BDD in Action: Advanced BDD Test Automation					Solid, robust, and sustainable automated acceptance tests
Accelerated Delivery through Measurable Outcomes					Define measurable outcomes and choose relevant and quantifiable metrics that can both guide your projects and make your teams more creative and more engaged

Workshop: Agile Product Planning
Target Audience
Business & Product Owner	BAs	Developers	Testers

Key Outcomes
Learn to budget, prioritise and plan features based on business outcomes and return on investments

Workshop: The Power of Collaborative Requirements Discovery
Target Audience
Business & Product Owner	BAs	Developers	Testers

Key Outcomes
Learn to work effectively with delivery teams using BDD

Workshop: BDD in Action: Mastering Agile Requirements
Target Audience
Business & Product Owner	BAs	Developers	Testers

Key Outcomes
Learn how to use BDD within a team to deliver higher value, higher quality features sooner

Workshop: BDD in Action: BDD, TDD and Clean Coding
Target Audience
Business & Product Owner	BAs	Developers	Testers

Key Outcomes
Higher quality code with fewer defects that is easier to understand and maintain

Workshop: BDD in Action: Advanced BDD Test Automation
Target Audience
Business & Product Owner	BAs	Developers	Testers

Key Outcomes
Solid, robust, and sustainable automated acceptance tests

The Serenity Dojo Expansion Programme

The Serenity Expansion Programme teaches testers how to write powerful and scaleable test automation frameworks and deliver high-quality automated tests faster using the revolutionary Flipped Testing model.

The goal of the programme is to give you the tools and the mindset shift to transform the way your organisation approaches both test automation and software delivery as a whole.

The program also shows you how to implement BDD effectively within your organisation using a simple 6-stage process.

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Upcoming Public Courses

Training Courses

John runs many public and on-site training courses to help teams work together more effectively to deliver better features sooner. Some of John's more popular courses include:

eXponential Business Agility (XBA) Practitioner

Are shrinking margins crippling your organization’s ability to innovate? Have new entrants into your core market(s) begun eating into your market share? XBA generates self-managing value streams that continuously prioritise bottlenecks to dramatically accelerate top-line business throughput for their portfolio as a whole. It integrates Product, Feature and Systems teams and forms one of XSCALE’s…

Behaviour Driven Development from start to finish

Cutting Edge BDD Training from the author of "BDD in Action"

More and more organisations are adopting BDD, or Behaviour Driven Development as a way to help teams deliver higher quality, higher value features sooner. Simply put, it gives them a competitive edge.

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Advanced Lean/Agile Software Delivery: Accelerated Delivery through Measurable Outcomes

High performing organisations don’t try to accelerate throughput or velocity. They accelerate learning. But we can only accelerate learning if we learn to measure what matters.

Accelerated delivery through measurable outcomes

“You cannot improve what you cannot measure” - Peter Drucker

In any Lean or Agile project, we aim to deliver features that make a…

Low Tech, High Impact Sprint Planning

The fast track from User Stories to high value software

The best software is delivered by engaged and creative teams with a deep understanding of business needs. But this doesn’t happen by accident! Learn how high performing teams use sprint planning and pre-planning techniques to build this understanding, and deliver software that delights the customer…

The Power of Collaborative Requirements Discovery

Bridge the gap between business and the delivery teams
This workshop helps business people learn how to collaborate more effectively with development teams to plan, build and deliver high quality software faster and more reliably. Attendees learn how to prioritise features based on business goals, and identify the fastest way to deliver value, and how…

BDD in Action: Mastering Agile Requirements

Understand the Essence of Behaviour Driven Development
Focus on the features your customers value the most by building a shared understanding of the real business needs, and empower your teams to deliver more optimal and more reliable solutions sooner! Product owners, BAs, Testers, and Developers alike will benefit from this hands-on workshop, which offers a unique…

Advanced BDD/TDD Masterclass

Experience the full BDD lifecycle with the author of BDD in Action! Good BDD/TDD and Software Craftsmanship practices can reduce defects by 90% or more, promote better design, make the code easier to understand and to modify, and cheaper to maintain. But this skills are notoriously hard to master without help. This hands-on workshop will…

BDD in Action: Advanced BDD Test Automation

BDD Test Automation that works!
Deliver world-class test automation to your team. Write more robust, higher quality automated acceptance tests using state of the art test automation practices. Learn to:

Write more automated tests faster

Write higher quality automated tests, making them faster, more reliable and easier to maintain

Increase confidence in your automated…

Next Generation Agile Delivery: Agile Product Planning

Build the right product  at the right time
This compact half-day workshop introduces business and delivery teams to a new and innovative way of identifying, prioritising and budgeting product features, ensuring focus on business outcomes and return on investment: Agile Product Planning. Learn how to discover and prioritise the features that really matter: those that will…

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Our mission is to help you create high-performance, high-impact teams with state-of-the-art skills in BDD, test automation and software craftsmanship. Teams passionate about delivering value to their organizations, and with a self-sustaining culture of excellence and continual improvement.

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John is the founder and technical lead of the Serenity BDD Open Source library. Serenity BDD helps you write better, more effective automated acceptance tests, and use these acceptance tests to produce world-class test reports and functional documentation.

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Empowering your teams

Get John's monthly tips on more effective software delivery practices.

Learn BDD and Test Automation from the author of BDD In Action!

Ask John To Help Your Teams Grow

The Serenity Dojo Expansion Programme

Upcoming Public Courses

Training Courses

Cutting Edge BDD Training from the author of "BDD in Action"

Accelerated delivery through measurable outcomes

The fast track from User Stories to high value software

Bridge the gap between business and the delivery teams

Understand the Essence of Behaviour Driven Development

BDD Test Automation that works!

Build the right product at the right time

Build the right product  at the right time