Stop Breaking Your Teams: Seeing the Whole Instead of Pieces | Testμ 2025

Join Nithin S.S as he challenges the pitfalls of siloed team models and highlights why testers must see the whole product experience, not just isolated pieces.

Discover how to align testing with customer value, build product-minded strategies, and create frameworks that accelerate delivery while maximizing impact.

Learn practical approaches to design experience-driven testing strategies, understand customer behavior, and deliver high-value features that truly resonate with users.

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What are some common signs that teams are working in silos, and how can leaders quickly spot them?

How can organizations create a culture that values end-to-end collaboration over isolated performance metrics?

How do you differentiate independence from autonomy in the context of team dynamics, and what’s the first move a team should make to build independence?

The talk distinguishes between autonomy (which the Spotify model has) and independence. How do you define “independence” in a team context, and what’s the first step a team can take to achieve it?

How can testers gain more influence in product choices and design decisions when they are traditionally seen as being at the end of the development process?

In what ways can testers shift from traditional defect-finding to actively shaping product decisions?

What new roles or responsibilities are emerging in QA because of AI adoption?

What’s the best approach for being able to holistically “see” the whole team" and not lose sight of each of its members?

How can testing strategies and processes be designed to uncover potential breakdowns in cross-team collaboration, rather than just finding bugs within individual features or components?

From the care and community aspect, what specific indicators or metrics can we use during the testing phase to assess the overall health and psychological safety of the development team responsible for the work?

How can testers play an important role in overall understanding of the system for better outcomes?

Do you think the chapter and guild as you mentioned in spotify framework is a failure?

Then what is a better framework to overcome the collaboration?

What metrics best capture whole-system health, not just team-level success?

What’s worse: a team that moves super-fast but breaks the product, or a team that’s perfect but never delivers?

If your product were a car, is your org building it like one team assembling the whole car, or ten teams each making random parts?

What’s more dangerous: a disengaged employee, or a siloed leader?

In your role, how do you align teams for faster app update delivery?

How to prevent silos?