Tips to Encourage Collaborative Testing-Slides from STPCon 2010

1. Lanette Creamer
Senior Consultant
Sogeti
Hooray. Collaboration.
Schedule that,.. Oops!
Conflicts with nap.
Decline.

2. Agenda
 The nine tips with examples
 Why some people resist and what to do about it
 Why collaboration?
 Summary
 Cat collaboration (a.k.a. herding cats)
 Q & A

3. Enlist Volunteers
Enthusiasm and willingness
matter

4. Create Celebrities
Natural credibility

5. Stimulate
Competition
Friendly wager?
Managers
Real winner

6. Food, Fun, Friends
Complex Teambuilding
Bring the Pizza*
*Exception

7. Word Up
Hey-Have we tried that?

8. Promote Projects
Useful, Hilarious, Memorable
Fun is still legal! Act now!

9. Output Examples

10. Output Examples

11. Output Examples

12. Output Examples

13. Output Examples

14. Output Examples

15. Output Examples

16. Output Examples

17. Output Examples

18. Get Management
Buy-in
Elevator Speech
Results First

19. Show Your
Appreciation
Small prizes
Feed people
Thank participants & managers
Show how it mattered

20. Train Your
Collaborative Team
Demos
Pairing
Unblocking

21. Share Your Time
and Resources
Listen and Include Feedback
Sincere Reciprocation
Be a Person, not a Cog

22. Being Human
Responds in Real Time
Adaptable
Accepts Change

23. Resistance?

24. Summary
Why Collaborate?
Perspective
Integration
Creativity
Teamwork
User Scenarios
Real Projects
End to End Workflows
Dog Food

25. Stardust
a.k.a. ChubChub, Chub-a-Love
Some are difficult

26. Tizzy
Some are sweet but shy

27. Kitty Snuggle Time
With time, they may grow to like it

28. But you can’t win them all
Ashley

29. Q&A
Lanette.creamer@gmail.com
http://blog.testyredhead.com
Twitter @lanettecream