Keynote from Australian Testing Days 2016 on Test Leadership

1. TEST MANAGEMENT
REVISITED

2. THE END OF
THE ROAD
FOR TEST
MANAGERS?
http://stephenjanaway.co.uk/stephenjanaway/
management/end-road-test-managers/

3. BAD NEWS
FOR
TEST
MANAGERS
http://thesocialtester.co.uk/follow-the-work-bad-
news-for-test-managers/

4. TEST LEADERSHIP

5. MANAGERS PROMOTE STABILITY
LEADERS PRESS FOR CHANGE
What Leaders really do - John P Kotter

6. @charrett
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Testers Pivots

7. Satir Change Model as described by Stephen M Smith

8. VISION
https://flic.kr/p/6gQk2R

9. BEST TESTING PRACTISE
IN AUSTRALIA

10. EVERY TESTER
IS
A TEST LEAD

11. STRATEGY
https://flic.kr/p/cpLKpJ

12. TESTING STRATEGIES

13. TESTING RELATED STRATEGIES
➤ Continuous Delivery
➤ Testing in production
➤ Microservices
➤ Risk Based Automation
➤ Embedding Testing
➤ Performance Testing
➤ Operational Testing
➤ Test Environments
➤ Business Engagement
➤ Training & Growth

14. MOTIVATION

15. MODEL
SYSTEMS
ASSESS
RISK
QUESTION
ASSUMPTIONS
OFFER
ALTERNATIVE
VIEWPOINTS
ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION
SHARE
KNOWLEGE
TEST
SOFTWARE
PERFORM
RESEARCH
DEVELOP
STRATEGIES
AUTONOMOUS
RESPONSIBLE
AUTODIDACTIC
SELF-AWARE
COURAGEOUS
TEST INFECT
TEAM

16. COACHING

17. Logs
(the task)
Bruce
(the coach)
Jimmy
(the student)

18. COACHING TASKS
➤ Test Strategy with MindMaps
➤ Risk Based Testing
➤ Analysing a Story
➤ Test Strategies
➤ Exploratory Testing
➤ Modelling
➤ Oracles
Coach

20. “WHEN A FLOWER
DOESN’T BLOOM
YOU FIX THE
ENVIRONMENT IN
WHICH IT GROWS
NOT THE FLOWER”
A. Den Heijer
https://flic.kr/p/63xfk8

21. PEOPLE WILL MAKE
DECISIONS
YOU DON’T AGREE WITH
AND THAT HAS TO BE
OK

22. STRATEGY
https://flic.kr/p/cpLKpJ

23. TESTING STRATEGIES

24. TESTING RELATED STRATEGIES
➤ Continuous Delivery
➤ Testing in production
➤ Microservices
➤ Risk Based Automation
➤ Embedding Testing
➤ Performance Testing
➤ Operational Testing
➤ Test Environments
➤ Business Engagement
➤ Training & Growth

25. ALIGNMENT
https://flic.kr/p/6gQk2R

28. COACHING & TRAINING
PUSH DECISION MAKING DOWN
MAKE WORK VISIBLE
WORK ON ENVIRONMENT
CONSTANTLY RE-INVENT
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS

29. ““What leaders really do is prepare
organizations for change and help
them cope as they struggle through
it”
-John P Kotter

30. THANK YOUAnne-Marie Charrett
amcharrett@testingtimes.com.au
mobile: +61410560923
Twitter: charrett