Managing a lean test team

Amy Phillips

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What is lean?

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Consider your process

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Lean teams

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It was the best team of your life

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It was the worst team of your life

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It comes down to the people (usually)

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Hire great people

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Use the deflection shield

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Choose to make a team awesome

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Don’t hide the test team

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Stop writing documents that no

one reads

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Always have a strategy

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Stop the unnecessary

testing

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Don’t duplicate testing

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Really, don’t duplicate testing

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Collect metrics

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only if you actually use them

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Team Development is

not waste. Ever.

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Your goal is to deliver a product

that the user wants to use

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Questions?

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