Leading following managing you can help your group thrive star canada 2017 al...Isabel Evans
As testers or test managers, being effective mentors, coaches, managers and leaders is critical to our team success. Quite often we also have a role in driving change, influencing others and helping individuals and teams move from where they are to the next level of excellence. We must interact with many people and work together in project teams as efficiently and effectively as possible. Join Isabel Evans as she discusses the range of interaction approaches or styles of leadership and management, what styles we feel most comfortable with and how we react to both being leaders and being led. Regardless of the software life cycle model we use, as testers, we need to understand these interactions, and when to adopt a leadership, mentoring, coaching, following, or learning attitude to help our group thrive. It’s not just humans who work in groups. Other animals can tell us about how we interact with individuals, teams, and groups both as leaders and followers. Use their example to leave with an understanding of leadership styles from authoritarian to collaborative and how we react to them, and learn how to use these approaches most effectively and efficiently.
Leading, Following, or Managing? You Can Help Your Group ThriveTechWell
As testers or test managers, being effective mentors, coaches, and leaders is critical to our team’s success. Quite often we also play important roles in driving change, influencing others, and helping individuals, teams, and the business move from where they are to a higher level of excellence. We must interact with many people and work together in project teams made up of individuals with diverse perspectives. Join Isabel Evans as she reviews the range of interaction approaches of leadership and management, explores what styles we feel most comfortable with, discusses how we react to both being leaders and being led—and investigates and provides examples of what other animals can tell us about how we interact with others. Regardless of the software lifecycle model we use, as testers we need to understand these interactions, and when to adopt a leadership, mentoring, coaching, following, or learning attitude to help our group thrive. Leave with an understanding of leadership styles from authoritarian to collaborative—and how we react to them. Learn how you can use these approaches most effectively and efficiently to help your group thrive.
Mindfulness is a great tool to enhance Emotional Intelligence which is important for Agile mindset - self-organizing, collaborating team members and facilitative leadership.
Joshua Kerievsky's 2016 keynote speech at Agile2016. Speech abstract follows...
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Over the past decade, innovative companies, software industry thought leaders and lean/agile pioneers have discovered simpler, sturdier, and more streamlined ways to be agile. While there is timeless wisdom in agile, today's practitioners would do well to bypass outmoded agile practices in favor of modern approaches.
Modern agile methods are defined by four guiding principles
• Make people awesome
• Make safety a prerequisite
• Experience & learn rapidly
• Deliver value continuously
World famous organizations like Google, Amazon, Air BnB, Etsy and others are living proof of the powers of these four principles. However, you don't need to be a name brand company to leverage modern agile wisdom.
In this talk, Josh will explain what he means by modern agility, share real-world modern agile stories, show how modern agile addresses key risks while targeting results over rituals, and reveal how the 2001 agile manifesto can be updated to reflect modern agile's four guiding principles.
Agile India 2017 Conference is Asia's Largest and Premier Conference on Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, Enterprise Agile, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, Research and Patterns. Get to meet pioneers and expert practitioners from around the world on Agile Mindset, Scaling Agility, Lean Product Discovery, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. 6 - 12 March 2017 at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore. More details: http://2017.agileindia.org
Tis better to be effective than efficientKent McDonald
Better. Faster. Cheaper. Many IT organizations are constantly seeking the "best" practices that will deliver those characteristics, and the fact that they continue to search indicates they haven’t found them yet.
It could be they are looking in the wrong place. Most efforts around achieving better, faster, cheaper center around becoming ultra efficient.
Effectiveness may just be the better target.
Join Kent McDonald to explore the difference between efficiency and effectiveness and learn three simple, yet powerful, techniques that he has found can help teams be more effective. You’ll learn how to:
Build a shared understanding of the problem you are trying to solve
Establish clear guard rails for distributed decision making
Measure progress based on outcome, not output
Along the way he’ll share stories about how he has used these techniques and help you figure out when these techniques may work in your situation.
You may be able to get faster and cheaper with efficiency, but in order to get better outcomes, you need to be effective. Come to this session to learn how.
Leading following managing you can help your group thrive star canada 2017 al...Isabel Evans
As testers or test managers, being effective mentors, coaches, managers and leaders is critical to our team success. Quite often we also have a role in driving change, influencing others and helping individuals and teams move from where they are to the next level of excellence. We must interact with many people and work together in project teams as efficiently and effectively as possible. Join Isabel Evans as she discusses the range of interaction approaches or styles of leadership and management, what styles we feel most comfortable with and how we react to both being leaders and being led. Regardless of the software life cycle model we use, as testers, we need to understand these interactions, and when to adopt a leadership, mentoring, coaching, following, or learning attitude to help our group thrive. It’s not just humans who work in groups. Other animals can tell us about how we interact with individuals, teams, and groups both as leaders and followers. Use their example to leave with an understanding of leadership styles from authoritarian to collaborative and how we react to them, and learn how to use these approaches most effectively and efficiently.
Leading, Following, or Managing? You Can Help Your Group ThriveTechWell
As testers or test managers, being effective mentors, coaches, and leaders is critical to our team’s success. Quite often we also play important roles in driving change, influencing others, and helping individuals, teams, and the business move from where they are to a higher level of excellence. We must interact with many people and work together in project teams made up of individuals with diverse perspectives. Join Isabel Evans as she reviews the range of interaction approaches of leadership and management, explores what styles we feel most comfortable with, discusses how we react to both being leaders and being led—and investigates and provides examples of what other animals can tell us about how we interact with others. Regardless of the software lifecycle model we use, as testers we need to understand these interactions, and when to adopt a leadership, mentoring, coaching, following, or learning attitude to help our group thrive. Leave with an understanding of leadership styles from authoritarian to collaborative—and how we react to them. Learn how you can use these approaches most effectively and efficiently to help your group thrive.
Mindfulness is a great tool to enhance Emotional Intelligence which is important for Agile mindset - self-organizing, collaborating team members and facilitative leadership.
Joshua Kerievsky's 2016 keynote speech at Agile2016. Speech abstract follows...
----
Over the past decade, innovative companies, software industry thought leaders and lean/agile pioneers have discovered simpler, sturdier, and more streamlined ways to be agile. While there is timeless wisdom in agile, today's practitioners would do well to bypass outmoded agile practices in favor of modern approaches.
Modern agile methods are defined by four guiding principles
• Make people awesome
• Make safety a prerequisite
• Experience & learn rapidly
• Deliver value continuously
World famous organizations like Google, Amazon, Air BnB, Etsy and others are living proof of the powers of these four principles. However, you don't need to be a name brand company to leverage modern agile wisdom.
In this talk, Josh will explain what he means by modern agility, share real-world modern agile stories, show how modern agile addresses key risks while targeting results over rituals, and reveal how the 2001 agile manifesto can be updated to reflect modern agile's four guiding principles.
Agile India 2017 Conference is Asia's Largest and Premier Conference on Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, Enterprise Agile, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, Research and Patterns. Get to meet pioneers and expert practitioners from around the world on Agile Mindset, Scaling Agility, Lean Product Discovery, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. 6 - 12 March 2017 at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore. More details: http://2017.agileindia.org
Tis better to be effective than efficientKent McDonald
Better. Faster. Cheaper. Many IT organizations are constantly seeking the "best" practices that will deliver those characteristics, and the fact that they continue to search indicates they haven’t found them yet.
It could be they are looking in the wrong place. Most efforts around achieving better, faster, cheaper center around becoming ultra efficient.
Effectiveness may just be the better target.
Join Kent McDonald to explore the difference between efficiency and effectiveness and learn three simple, yet powerful, techniques that he has found can help teams be more effective. You’ll learn how to:
Build a shared understanding of the problem you are trying to solve
Establish clear guard rails for distributed decision making
Measure progress based on outcome, not output
Along the way he’ll share stories about how he has used these techniques and help you figure out when these techniques may work in your situation.
You may be able to get faster and cheaper with efficiency, but in order to get better outcomes, you need to be effective. Come to this session to learn how.
Traditional business models are failing to keep up with the needs of the modern economy. While business has never been predictable, technological and cultural change is occurring at faster rates than ever before. In this climate, modern enterprises live or die on their ability to adapt – which is where Business Agility comes in. Business Agility provides a context for organisations to embrace change; changing how to think, changing how to work and changing how to interact.
Whether you’ve heard of Holocracy or Teal Organisations; it seems that lean and agile business models are gaining interest across different business sectors. This presentation will provide engaging and enlightening stories of Agile beyond IT; from lean startups to large enterprises. These will be reinforced with practical approaches for the design and leadership of teams, divisions and businesses across 4 key domains;
1. The Structure of an Agile Organisation - Efficient, transparent and collaborative techniques to manage cross-functional, self-organising and potentially self-managing teams.
2. You, the Agile Manager - What makes a good agile manager and how do their responsibilities change?
3. Integrated Customer Engagement - Collaboration and communication techniques to build trust and deliver Customer needs efficiently, with minimal waste, and to everyone’s satisfaction.
4. Work, the Agile Way - Managing all types of business functions, from software, HR, finance to legal, by using Just-In-Time planning and incremental or continuous delivery processes.
Value Driven Development by Dave Thomas Naresh Jain
Agile, OOP... are like good hygiene in the kitchen, it results in meals with consistent quality and predictable prep and service times. It doesn't result in great meals nor substantially impact the ROI! Lean Thinking clearly shows that the only way to make a significant impact is to improve the value chain by improving flow. If everyone is following best practices no one has competitive advantage. Major improvements in the value chain depend on continued disruptive innovations. Innovations leverage people and their ideas. We use case studies to illustrate the different business and technical innovations and their impact. We conclude with a discussion of how to build and leverage an innovation culture versus a sprint death march when dealing with high value time to market projects.
More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2017/proposal/3608/value-driven-development-maximum-impact-maximum-speed
7 Things Agile Leaders and Executives Do Differently - Agile Australia 2016 b...Dipesh Pala
One of the keys to a successful enterprise Agile transformation is the support of executive leadership, which is more than simply providing approval. The Agile executive enables, empowers and engages rather than controls.
According to one recent survey, more than one in three organisations claim that the lack of leadership engagement within their businesses is plaguing their journey towards sustainable organisational agility.
With a special focus on executives and leaders, this presentation will be draw upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences in multiple organisations across eight countries, and will share real-life case studies and insights to illustrate the key things that Agile leaders need to do differently.
Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish progress – and what does the opposite.
Why Scaling Agile Doesn't Work (and What to Do About It)Jez Humble
There are now several frameworks designed to address the demand for "big agile."
In this talk Jez will explain the flaws in such frameworks, why they so often fail to produce the desired effects, and what we should do instead. He will also address some common organizational obstacles to moving fast at scale: governance, budgeting, and the project paradigm - and discuss how to address them. Warning: this talk will include liberal use of real, statistically sound data.
This slide deck accompanies a workshop I ran at Agile India in March 2017. The majority of the audience were scrummasters, agile coaches, team managers etc.
It leans on the Heart of Agile meme.
The workshop focused on two activities;
1. thinking about better than best practices so that we can escape the tyranny of other people's patterns.
2. Getting people to reflect on the experience of telling/being told versus collaborating on a problem.
Ideation and Creation of the Perfect Infographics - Dreamforce 2014Andrew Melchior
Creating the perfect infographic can be fun and challenging. My presentation outlined best practices and tips I've learned at Avalaunch Media over the years of producing thousands of infographics.
Technical practices like refactoring and TDD (Test-Driven Development) have become mainstream in software development. However, software developers I met in many companies are either oblivious or have a different interpretation. My interest is to help developers adopt technical practices and being a mentor has played a big part. Through the years I've tried many ways to maximise the effectiveness of mentee's learning and also brings many challenges and discoveries. In this talk, I'll share the experiments I tried and hope it'll inspire you to help others improve their technical practices.
Enabling Company-wide Agility in a Dynamic World by John Buck & Jutta EcksteinJutta Eckstein
Today companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be Agile. Yet, doing Agile (the mechanics) is different from being Agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but for whole company. In this workshop, we will examine what being Agile really means and how it can be implemented by combining principles from the Agile Manifesto, Sociocracy, Beyond Budgeting, and Open Space. We’ll draw on everyone’s experiences to show the path to transforming our companies into agile enterprises - from Board to janitor, offering concrete tools and methods that participants can apply right away.
The Self Selecting Organisation - Total Squadification at Trade MeSandy Mamoli
Inspired by Spotify's squads and Atlassian's Fedex day we let 90 people choose what they wanted to work on and who they wanted to work with. Through telling the story of Trade Me, New Zealand's biggest ecommerce platform, we will demonstrate how good leadership can inspire and empower people using a scalable self-selection process along with a vision for an exciting picture of the future.
Flying in the face of conventional wisdom and traditional management practices a middle manager and an Agile coach didn't ask for permission, and removed significant obstacles and constraints to successfully form 18 self-chosen, fully skilled squads. In this session we will show how we facilitated self-organisation on a scale we don't believe has been done before, what we had to go through to convince people that this was a good idea, how we learned how to visualise the process and dealt with brilliant people as well as a few difficult ones!
We will describe how we had the exciting opportunity to observe and partake in a social experiment where people made decisions on the fly and stayed true to our values of being trusted, straight up and to grow great people.
All Agile teams self-organise but we took the principles to a whole other level and created the self-organising organisation.
Diffy : Automatic Testing of Microservices @ TwitterPuneet Khanduri
Agile development has become a norm nowadays. Though it fosters faster product development cycles, it often results in a higher number of functional and/or performance regressions. In an SOA setting such as Twitter, such regressions may cascade from one service to one or more services. Detecting such regressions manually is not practically feasible in light of the hundreds of services and tens of thousands of metrics each service collects. To this end, we developed a novel tool called Diffy to automatically detect such regressions.
The key highlights of the talk are the following:
A simple yet effective approach for detecting functional regressions. False positives are minimized via statistical analysis of metrics obtained from a tuple <primary,> of nodes, where the same traffic is sent to each node.
An ensemble approach to performance regression. The need for an ensemble of classifiers stemmed from the multifaceted characteristics of the performance data. In order to minimize the impact of variability of hardware performance across nodes, we used two clusters – instead of a tuple of nodes – corresponding to the release candidate and production code. The approach is robust against the presence of anomalies in the performance data.
The proposed techniques work well with minute data. Diffy has been in use in production by multiple services at Twitter, and has been baked into the continuous build process so as to actively detect functional and/or performance regressions.
We shall take the audience through how the techniques are being used at Twitter with REAL data.
Be Ready, Be Done: The Art of Slicing StoriesRaj Indugula
"Can I have my cake and eat it too? Of course, as long as it is one slice at a time!"
Revisit proven strategies and patterns to create small pieces of useful, testable functionality, and explore strategies for getting stories to “ready” and “done”.
Agile India 2016 Conference is Asia's Largest and Premier Conference on Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, Enterprise Agile, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, Research and Patterns. Get to meet pioneers and expert practitioners from around the world on Agile Adoption, Scaling Agile, Offshore Agile and Distributed Agile. 14 - 21 March 2016 at Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. More details: http://2016.agileindia.org
All too often we’ve been measuring activity and cost, not outcomes and value. And it’s important to understand that an organisation that plans for growth outcomes (without binding a team to a specific output) can fundamentally adapt to a changing market. By creating clearly defined, non-conflicting, outcomes and common working principles senior management can delegate the “how” to their teams, while retaining ownership of the “what” and “why”.
This interactive presentation will help participants define the real outcomes and associated measures for their work and teams. Participants will come to understand that outcomes can be complex, interdependent and occasionally conflicting. Therefore we will create 3 elements;
1. the profile of the outcome,
2. the relationship between outcomes, and
3. the principles that align work across all outcomes
My failures in software testing v7 star east 2017Isabel Evans
In her more than thirty years in the IT industry, Isabel Evans says she has learned more from her failures than she has from her successes. Why is this? And what has she learned? That making mistakes is the way to learn, and that allowing yourself to be wrong allows you to grow. Join Isabel to enjoy her greatest failures, and learn not to make the same mistakes she has made. Recently, someone described Isabel as unusual in the technology industries as she is an “elderly woman,” so she has taken as her motto Bob Dylan’s line: “I was so much older then—I’m younger than that now.” Isabel shares why being Generation A means continuing to fail, fail, and finally succeed—over and over again. As someone affected by the “imposter syndrome,” she reflects on confidence dropping as expertise grows, the necessity of dealing with constant change, and why we can never know everything. Isabel may be an elderly woman in tech but she is still planning to make more mistakes and learn more new skills and knowledge. Join Isabel for this stage of her journey.
Do you ever feel you have lost confidence in your own abilities? Why does this happen? Isabel Evans spends a lot of time painting. Someone once commented, “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?” And gradually she stopped drawing and painting, after being intimidated by a conventional vision of what good art should look like. At the same time, she experienced a parallel loss of confidence in her professional abilities. Attempting creative pursuits like drawing and painting is essential to cognitive, emotional, creative abilities and she began to understand the correlation between her creative activities and her confidence. Making errors, being wrong, failing – that is a generous gift we receive when we practice outside our skill level. By staying in a comfort zone and repeating successes, we stagnate. As Isabel started to create again she thought “I don’t feel good at it, I do feel good doing it” The difference was that she was learning, having ideas and the act of re-engaging with failure, together with the comradeship of friends and colleagues, including at Women Who Test, Isabel has regained her confidence in her professional abilities, and been able to reboot her career and joy. Join Isabel to share a journey from self-perceived failure, to recovery and renewed learning.
Traditional business models are failing to keep up with the needs of the modern economy. While business has never been predictable, technological and cultural change is occurring at faster rates than ever before. In this climate, modern enterprises live or die on their ability to adapt – which is where Business Agility comes in. Business Agility provides a context for organisations to embrace change; changing how to think, changing how to work and changing how to interact.
Whether you’ve heard of Holocracy or Teal Organisations; it seems that lean and agile business models are gaining interest across different business sectors. This presentation will provide engaging and enlightening stories of Agile beyond IT; from lean startups to large enterprises. These will be reinforced with practical approaches for the design and leadership of teams, divisions and businesses across 4 key domains;
1. The Structure of an Agile Organisation - Efficient, transparent and collaborative techniques to manage cross-functional, self-organising and potentially self-managing teams.
2. You, the Agile Manager - What makes a good agile manager and how do their responsibilities change?
3. Integrated Customer Engagement - Collaboration and communication techniques to build trust and deliver Customer needs efficiently, with minimal waste, and to everyone’s satisfaction.
4. Work, the Agile Way - Managing all types of business functions, from software, HR, finance to legal, by using Just-In-Time planning and incremental or continuous delivery processes.
Value Driven Development by Dave Thomas Naresh Jain
Agile, OOP... are like good hygiene in the kitchen, it results in meals with consistent quality and predictable prep and service times. It doesn't result in great meals nor substantially impact the ROI! Lean Thinking clearly shows that the only way to make a significant impact is to improve the value chain by improving flow. If everyone is following best practices no one has competitive advantage. Major improvements in the value chain depend on continued disruptive innovations. Innovations leverage people and their ideas. We use case studies to illustrate the different business and technical innovations and their impact. We conclude with a discussion of how to build and leverage an innovation culture versus a sprint death march when dealing with high value time to market projects.
More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2017/proposal/3608/value-driven-development-maximum-impact-maximum-speed
7 Things Agile Leaders and Executives Do Differently - Agile Australia 2016 b...Dipesh Pala
One of the keys to a successful enterprise Agile transformation is the support of executive leadership, which is more than simply providing approval. The Agile executive enables, empowers and engages rather than controls.
According to one recent survey, more than one in three organisations claim that the lack of leadership engagement within their businesses is plaguing their journey towards sustainable organisational agility.
With a special focus on executives and leaders, this presentation will be draw upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences in multiple organisations across eight countries, and will share real-life case studies and insights to illustrate the key things that Agile leaders need to do differently.
Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish progress – and what does the opposite.
Why Scaling Agile Doesn't Work (and What to Do About It)Jez Humble
There are now several frameworks designed to address the demand for "big agile."
In this talk Jez will explain the flaws in such frameworks, why they so often fail to produce the desired effects, and what we should do instead. He will also address some common organizational obstacles to moving fast at scale: governance, budgeting, and the project paradigm - and discuss how to address them. Warning: this talk will include liberal use of real, statistically sound data.
This slide deck accompanies a workshop I ran at Agile India in March 2017. The majority of the audience were scrummasters, agile coaches, team managers etc.
It leans on the Heart of Agile meme.
The workshop focused on two activities;
1. thinking about better than best practices so that we can escape the tyranny of other people's patterns.
2. Getting people to reflect on the experience of telling/being told versus collaborating on a problem.
Ideation and Creation of the Perfect Infographics - Dreamforce 2014Andrew Melchior
Creating the perfect infographic can be fun and challenging. My presentation outlined best practices and tips I've learned at Avalaunch Media over the years of producing thousands of infographics.
Technical practices like refactoring and TDD (Test-Driven Development) have become mainstream in software development. However, software developers I met in many companies are either oblivious or have a different interpretation. My interest is to help developers adopt technical practices and being a mentor has played a big part. Through the years I've tried many ways to maximise the effectiveness of mentee's learning and also brings many challenges and discoveries. In this talk, I'll share the experiments I tried and hope it'll inspire you to help others improve their technical practices.
Enabling Company-wide Agility in a Dynamic World by John Buck & Jutta EcksteinJutta Eckstein
Today companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be Agile. Yet, doing Agile (the mechanics) is different from being Agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but for whole company. In this workshop, we will examine what being Agile really means and how it can be implemented by combining principles from the Agile Manifesto, Sociocracy, Beyond Budgeting, and Open Space. We’ll draw on everyone’s experiences to show the path to transforming our companies into agile enterprises - from Board to janitor, offering concrete tools and methods that participants can apply right away.
The Self Selecting Organisation - Total Squadification at Trade MeSandy Mamoli
Inspired by Spotify's squads and Atlassian's Fedex day we let 90 people choose what they wanted to work on and who they wanted to work with. Through telling the story of Trade Me, New Zealand's biggest ecommerce platform, we will demonstrate how good leadership can inspire and empower people using a scalable self-selection process along with a vision for an exciting picture of the future.
Flying in the face of conventional wisdom and traditional management practices a middle manager and an Agile coach didn't ask for permission, and removed significant obstacles and constraints to successfully form 18 self-chosen, fully skilled squads. In this session we will show how we facilitated self-organisation on a scale we don't believe has been done before, what we had to go through to convince people that this was a good idea, how we learned how to visualise the process and dealt with brilliant people as well as a few difficult ones!
We will describe how we had the exciting opportunity to observe and partake in a social experiment where people made decisions on the fly and stayed true to our values of being trusted, straight up and to grow great people.
All Agile teams self-organise but we took the principles to a whole other level and created the self-organising organisation.
Diffy : Automatic Testing of Microservices @ TwitterPuneet Khanduri
Agile development has become a norm nowadays. Though it fosters faster product development cycles, it often results in a higher number of functional and/or performance regressions. In an SOA setting such as Twitter, such regressions may cascade from one service to one or more services. Detecting such regressions manually is not practically feasible in light of the hundreds of services and tens of thousands of metrics each service collects. To this end, we developed a novel tool called Diffy to automatically detect such regressions.
The key highlights of the talk are the following:
A simple yet effective approach for detecting functional regressions. False positives are minimized via statistical analysis of metrics obtained from a tuple <primary,> of nodes, where the same traffic is sent to each node.
An ensemble approach to performance regression. The need for an ensemble of classifiers stemmed from the multifaceted characteristics of the performance data. In order to minimize the impact of variability of hardware performance across nodes, we used two clusters – instead of a tuple of nodes – corresponding to the release candidate and production code. The approach is robust against the presence of anomalies in the performance data.
The proposed techniques work well with minute data. Diffy has been in use in production by multiple services at Twitter, and has been baked into the continuous build process so as to actively detect functional and/or performance regressions.
We shall take the audience through how the techniques are being used at Twitter with REAL data.
Be Ready, Be Done: The Art of Slicing StoriesRaj Indugula
"Can I have my cake and eat it too? Of course, as long as it is one slice at a time!"
Revisit proven strategies and patterns to create small pieces of useful, testable functionality, and explore strategies for getting stories to “ready” and “done”.
Agile India 2016 Conference is Asia's Largest and Premier Conference on Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, DevOps, Enterprise Agile, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, Research and Patterns. Get to meet pioneers and expert practitioners from around the world on Agile Adoption, Scaling Agile, Offshore Agile and Distributed Agile. 14 - 21 March 2016 at Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. More details: http://2016.agileindia.org
All too often we’ve been measuring activity and cost, not outcomes and value. And it’s important to understand that an organisation that plans for growth outcomes (without binding a team to a specific output) can fundamentally adapt to a changing market. By creating clearly defined, non-conflicting, outcomes and common working principles senior management can delegate the “how” to their teams, while retaining ownership of the “what” and “why”.
This interactive presentation will help participants define the real outcomes and associated measures for their work and teams. Participants will come to understand that outcomes can be complex, interdependent and occasionally conflicting. Therefore we will create 3 elements;
1. the profile of the outcome,
2. the relationship between outcomes, and
3. the principles that align work across all outcomes
My failures in software testing v7 star east 2017Isabel Evans
In her more than thirty years in the IT industry, Isabel Evans says she has learned more from her failures than she has from her successes. Why is this? And what has she learned? That making mistakes is the way to learn, and that allowing yourself to be wrong allows you to grow. Join Isabel to enjoy her greatest failures, and learn not to make the same mistakes she has made. Recently, someone described Isabel as unusual in the technology industries as she is an “elderly woman,” so she has taken as her motto Bob Dylan’s line: “I was so much older then—I’m younger than that now.” Isabel shares why being Generation A means continuing to fail, fail, and finally succeed—over and over again. As someone affected by the “imposter syndrome,” she reflects on confidence dropping as expertise grows, the necessity of dealing with constant change, and why we can never know everything. Isabel may be an elderly woman in tech but she is still planning to make more mistakes and learn more new skills and knowledge. Join Isabel for this stage of her journey.
Do you ever feel you have lost confidence in your own abilities? Why does this happen? Isabel Evans spends a lot of time painting. Someone once commented, “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?” And gradually she stopped drawing and painting, after being intimidated by a conventional vision of what good art should look like. At the same time, she experienced a parallel loss of confidence in her professional abilities. Attempting creative pursuits like drawing and painting is essential to cognitive, emotional, creative abilities and she began to understand the correlation between her creative activities and her confidence. Making errors, being wrong, failing – that is a generous gift we receive when we practice outside our skill level. By staying in a comfort zone and repeating successes, we stagnate. As Isabel started to create again she thought “I don’t feel good at it, I do feel good doing it” The difference was that she was learning, having ideas and the act of re-engaging with failure, together with the comradeship of friends and colleagues, including at Women Who Test, Isabel has regained her confidence in her professional abilities, and been able to reboot her career and joy. Join Isabel to share a journey from self-perceived failure, to recovery and renewed learning.
In her more than thirty years in the IT industry, Isabel Evans says she has learned more from her failures than she has from her successes. Why is this? And what has she learned? That making mistakes is the way to learn, and that allowing yourself to be wrong allows you to grow. Join Isabel to enjoy her greatest failures, and learn not to make the same mistakes she has made. Recently, someone described Isabel as unusual in the technology industries as she is an “elderly woman,” so she has taken as her motto Bob Dylan’s line: “I was so much older then—I’m younger than that now.” Isabel shares why being Generation A means continuing to fail, fail, and finally succeed—over and over again. As someone affected by the “imposter syndrome,” she reflects on confidence dropping as expertise grows, the necessity of dealing with constant change, and why we can never know everything. Isabel may be an elderly woman in tech but she is still planning to make more mistakes and learn more new skills and knowledge. Join Isabel for this stage of her journey.
This presentation is from around 8 years back, yet the content is relevant even for today. I had made this presentation long back as a one day workshop for my fellow CXOs & Directors on the Board of my then company. As the HR Head, I was trying to challenge the status quo & I must admit, it was a very successful workshop since I ended up transforming that company eventually.
The content is borrowed from all my gurus, mentors & coaches in life so most of this belongs to them. I am sharing it for the benefit of all my fellow HR colleagues in CXO Roles handling change in their companies as a key theme.............All the best....
This message offers people a message of self-empowerment, to be responsible for their lives, to understand the spiritual journey we're on and what an awesome opportunity it is to live this life. A day, a minute, a second cannot be repeated so let's live fully.
Learning to tell testing stories workshop v2 handout (3) euro star nov 2016Isabel Evans
Learning to tell our testing stories (90 minute workshop)
Abstract: Our ability to tell stories and our natural delight in narrative can help us communicate about testing. We will tell stories and listen to them. Use your natural ability to tell and appreciate stories to improve your communication with others. Be able to tell stories in different styles, and select which formats best suit your own testing circumstances. Be able to listen and react better to your colleagues and adapt your listening style to their story telling styles. Engage your audience, feel energised and embrace the real world of stories that are all around you.
Alice in wonderland -Young Women in the Working WorldHabiba Balogun
A guide to successfully navigating the modern workplace for young women. Making the right choices. Goal setting. Decision-making tools. Invisible Rules. Women in the workplace statistics. Sexism and Sexual Harassment. Self-mastery.
This presentation was created as a silly spin on staff professional development in the area of successful team work. It is meant to inform, entertain, and engage the audience. Did I mention it was silly? :)
This is a powerpoint, I created, with help from a Developmental Specialist named Becky Parker (M. Ed.) who is in the Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education Program at BYU-Idaho. It talks about the causes and some helpful tips for parents, teachers, and specialists who may work with these amazing people who suffer from Sensory Disorders.
This is a powerpoint, I created, with help from a Developmental Specialist named Becky Parker (M. Ed.) who is in the Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education Program at BYU-Idaho. It talks about the causes and some helpful tips for parents, teachers, and specialists who may work with these amazing people who suffer from Sensory Disorders.
Training PowerPoint on reading dog behavior and improving dog care to reduce dog stress in the animal shelter and also reduce dog bite occurences in shelter staff and volunteers.
Learning Objective: Increase professional leadership qualities, confidence, and competence
Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you? Great Leadership happens when you understand the game and sharpen the right tools to play effectively. Achieving greatness is no easy task. Each person has a unique path with its own set of challenges and obstacles to overcome. As emerging leaders, you must explore who you are and understand how all life experiences contribute value to your journey. On this path, most will discover that success is about embracing and using your individuality to achieve greatness. On this path, you will discover that great men make great leaders. What truly makes you great? Who do you consider great? This seminar will explore life and leadership while examining the impact of hip-hop culture and its impact on definitions and perspectives of success.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. Explore characteristics of great men and ways to maintain and gain respect.
b. Identify effective leadership qualities.
c. Examine basic “success” rules and ways to ways to manage corporate politics.
d. Discuss ways to overcome challenges and stereotypes.
e. Explore themes and lyrics of “hip hop” culture and its impact on perspectives of success.
Lessons every leader should learn to become more effective in his way of dealing with day to day situations.
Watch a video on youtube by clicking on the URL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFq82FGwWYJulZtx0CfvAOw
What do you do when you are not working? Whatever it is, you probably have a place where you work on your interests, some tools and equipment, and especially some things you always have with you. Perhaps you have a room or shed or tool rack with your favorite and your most used equipment easily at hand in a workbox. Wouldn’t it be great to have your own workbox for testing? Well, you already do! Everyone’s “mental tool set” is different, but we all need versatile, strong, and multipurpose approaches to our work. In thirty years of software testing, Isabel Evans has developed her own trusted workbox of approaches, methods, and ideas that help her communicate, manage, improve, test, work in teams, and solve problems. Isabel shares her workbox with you and uses a mix of teaching, coaching, discussion, and hands-on exercises to help you share your workboxes and restock your “mental tool set” for testing.
As software practitioners focusing on technology issues, we often find that our messages to management and the business are either not heard or are misinterpreted. And sometimes we do not hear the messages that they need us to hear. Isabel Evans examines our natural ability to tell stories and how everyone’s built-in receptiveness to narratives will help you communicate productively about testing and quality.
Isabel looks at how we can tell our testing stories in a way that is appealing to our audience. That means thinking about the role of oral, written, and visual representations of testing stories and practicing communicating through the analogies of novels, short stories, picture books, poems, and songs. Because we will need a variety of story formats for our testing messages to work best, Isabel shares how to adapt testing stories to different audiences. Learn how we can better listen to other people’s stories and adapt our listening style to different storytellers.
Quality in use why do we need to understand the user experience v1 handout ...Isabel Evans
Users have a choice - they can use or products or go elsewhere - in the words of the Clash - Should they stay or should they go? What if they do not have a choice? what happens to them then?
State transition workshop sigist sept 2017 sue a isabel e v3Isabel Evans
Focus on state transition testing – a way to model your testing world! by Sue Atkins and Isabel Evans.
Test design is a fundamental part of our toolbox as testers, whether we are working with exploratory approaches, designing scripts to be built into automation or carrying out manual scripted testing. As part of the September SIGiST theme of “Increasing our capabilities” we are delighted to offer this masterclass workshop focused on one important test design technique: State Transition Testing.
State transition modelling and testing is useful for understanding diverse types of application and events, such as movement between screens in an application, navigation around websites, and triggers for action in embedded systems.
In 90 minutes, Sue and Isabel will introduce the State Transition technique, show examples and provide you with exercises to try it for yourself. We both use this technique in our own testing, finding it can be applied to
- Review specifications and find potential defects and missing requirements;
- Derive a test basis from discussion of unwritten requirements and designs;
- Derive tests and expected results;
- Drive the direction for a non-scripted approach to test execution;
- Provide input to automated tests.
The workshop will include taught elements, exercises and discussion.
Ux for test tools tx-75minskey v10 16-9 slideshare nokia test dive 2017Isabel Evans
“TX to prevent “shelfware”: Understanding the tester’s experience of automation and tools” (75 mins)
There is a taken-for-granted assumption in the testing industry that many software testing tools become “shelfware” (that is, they are purchased but not used) because they are hard to implement and use. If there is a problem with shelfware, this raises questions, for example: Is this because the tools are flawed, and don’t give the testers the support and information they need? Or is it because the testers need to become more technical and “step up” to the requirements of the tools?
These questions matter because testing, and the automation of test activities, is time consuming, difficult to do, and expensive, but heavily relied on by teams and organisations. Maybe, if the User eXpereince (UX) for tools was improved this could help with the implementation and usage of the tools. Perhaps we should consider not just the functional and technical aspects of the product but also emotional responses including trust and credibility, making a product meaningful and pleasant to use, and measures of the efficiency and effectiveness with which people can carry out their tasks.
Good automation tools should help us make good decisions about the SUT and maximise the value of the limited time we have, to deliver software products to market. Poor automation tools may delay decision making, increase the likelihood of errors of judgement, and frustrate both engineers and managers.
Once activities have been automated and industrialised, people are still required to operate the automation, or even over-ride it if it malfunctions. Some evidence (for example quoted in “The Glass Cage” by Nicholas Carr) suggests that people may become over-reliant and over-trusting of automation and not notice when it goes wrong. What then is the best UX for test tools? One that provides as easy an experience for the tester as possible, or one that maximises their decision making and alertness? And, can both those qualities be delivered in one interface?
The talk draws on Isabel’s practical experience in industry, as well as research and study with Julian Harty, Stuart Reid, Dorothy Graham, Nadine Raes and others. Isabel is embarking on a PhD study to research this matter in more depth. Isabel hopes to provoke feedback and discussion during the presentation.
Key points
• Issues with the UX of automation solutions may affect the success of automation projects;
• Understanding the needs of the testers and managers using the automation may reduce those issues;
• Adopting human-centric design practices can help you to design, build or select automation that supports testers.
Does test automation add value? Good automation does, but poor automation reduces value, delaying decisions, and increasing the likelihood of errors of judgement.
Automation tools are written and serviced by engineers, but people who use automation might not always be technical. To understand what they need, we need to understand them. User eXperience (UX) methods will help.
Test automation requires consideration of the UX for the tool and the tests, supporting improved decision making, and increasing automation’s value.
Quality in use 45 min presentation 16 9 slideshare nokia test dive 2017Isabel Evans
In today’s business environment, the user experience and the commercial imperatives have become overwhelmingly important. As testers, it is vital that we understand quality in use and the user experience, in order that we focus our tests correctly.
"Quality in use" measures human, business, and societal impacts of products (usability, accessibility, flexibility, commercial, safety). This builds to a User Experience (UX) and are underpinned by technical and engineering qualities. For the people selling, supporting, or using the products, this is the beating heart of the customer experience. Without these "big picture" attributes, delivered software will not be acceptable, may result in reduced profits, and may not be legal. In the tutorial, Isabel will use examples from real projects to discuss how to design tests derived from the user personas, contexts of use, and acceptance criteria.
People factors in automation v3 half day tutorial star canada 2017 stareast...Isabel Evans
Workshop: Successful test automation is not just about selecting and implementing tools and a technical infrastructure. People in teams make the changes that are required. People ensure the success or failure of the automation project. Understanding and managing expectations, attitudes toward change, teamwork, motivation, and communication are all vital if automation projects are to succeed. Isabel Evans identifies and discusses human factors around automation, teamwork, and human behavior to enable you to understand resistance to change, overcome mistrust of automation, and moderate inflated expectations of what automation can achieve. Learn why people react as they do to the prospect and actuality of automation projects. Join Isabel to explore new strategies for managing people and teams through their changing emotional responses
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
When stars align: studies in data quality, knowledge graphs, and machine lear...
Agile india leading managing-following - keynote v5 for sharing
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Leading - Following – Managing
You can help your group thrive
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www.isabelevans.uk
Namaste, Agile India
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How can we thrive?
• It is hard sometimes…
– to be in a team, to lead or to follow
– to manage people and projects
• Other people are hard to understand
– they seem to behave and think differently to us
• Sometimes
– we feel treated badly
– people get in our space and interfere
– we feel rejected by others
– we feel used
– and helpless
what can we do about it?
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Leadership case study: Mike
“…Mike … was low-ranking
By judicious use of (…noise directed…) toward his
superiors, he bluffed his way to the alpha
position…
For sometime after this Mike seemed unsure of
himself
and seized every opportunity to display vigorously as
though to impress any males nearby;
often too he attacked females for no obvious reason as
he was tense…”
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Leaders, Managers, Followers:
We are animals, often in teams
We work in teams. Teams that have goals, that work together to
solve problems, that sometimes squabble and make up. How people
in the group behave depends on the styles of leadership,
management and followership adopted in the group, and on each of
our individual behaviours.
Pictures of animals – solitary and in groups
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Orcas – apex predator hunters
• Alpha female leads
• Roles and experiences
• Hunting emotion – joy
• Teamwork
• Leader
• Manager
• Followers
• Team members can play and make mistakes
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Wolves – predator hunters
• Don’t have such ease…
• Hunting emotion – desperation
• Super focused exertion
• Will eat mice in winter
• Teamwork
• Leader
• Manager
• Followers
• No place for mistakes – succeed or die
• A lone wolf is a sick wolf
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Chimpanzees – opportunistic hunters
• Sometimes coordinated, sometime they just grab
a chance…
• For large prey (e.g. baboons) will request help
from others
• Hunting emotion – excitement
• Teamwork (sometimes)
• Leader
• Manager
• Followers and roles…
• Fight your way up the hierarchy…
• But only with the help of allies…
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Parasites and symbionts
• No Teamwork?
• No Leader?
• No Manager?
• No Followers?
• Uneasy alliances?
• Unconscious “cooperation”?
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Some parasites are quite attractive – but
still make hard work for their team…
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Leaders, Managers, Followers:
We interact in different ways…
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Leadership Quadrants
Feelers
Feelers
Muddlers
Thinkers
Engagers
Relational
Rational
http://leadership.org.au/resources/leadership-models-tools/
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Follower Types
Pragmatics
The Alienated
Yes-People
level of critical thinkingpassive
active
Star Followers
Sheep
After Kelley
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Sheep: passive, require
external motivation,
lack commitment and
require constant
supervision
Yes-People: committed to
the leader and the goal /
task / leader / team.
Conform, do not question
decisions or actions,
defend their leader
The Pragmatics: not trail-blazers; will not stand
behind controversial or unique ideas; vote with
majority; stay in the background
Alienated: negative, attempt to stall
or bring the group down, constantly
questioning, view themselves as the
rightful leader, critical of the leader
and fellow group members
Star Followers: positive, active,
and independent thinkers, will
not blindly accept the decisions
or actions; Can succeed without
the presence of a leader.
Kelley
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Effective star followership
Self
management
Commitment
Competence Courage
Star
followership
Kelley
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Effective star leadership …. the same!
Self
management
Commitment
Competence Courage
Star
leadership
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from Australian Leadership Foundation
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Controlling Leader:
what type of followers?
L
High Authority
Low Autonomy
High Work Output
Low Time Input
No Engagement
Meaningful work?
Which followers can work easily in this environment?
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Guiding Leader:
what type of followers?
Medium Authority
Medium Autonomy
L
Decreased Work Output
Increased Time Input
Increased Engagement
Meaningful work?
Which followers can work easily in this environment?
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Collaborating Leader:
what type of followers?
Low Authority
High Autonomy
L
Lower Work Output
Higher Time Input
Better Engagement
Meaningful work?
Which followers can work easily in this environment?
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Leaders, Managers, Followers:
We are animals of habit & territory…
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Is your office a cage?
- Managing territory -
Personal space
Home range
Territory
Flight distance Alert distance
Continually
panicky
Continually
alerted Can retreat
Pathological
behaviour
Able to roam
Hyperagressive CoexistAlerted
After Ellis
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Safety and danger
- home range and new territory -
Pathological
behaviour
Able to roam
Known territory
Fearful or fearless
exploration of new
territory?
Start support, coaching,
mentoring – team and individual
Pathological
behaviour
Able to roam
Known territory
Fearful or fearless
exploration of new
territory?
Start support, coaching, mentoring
– team and individual
Ellis
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Water voles and other small rodents
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-010-0338-5
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Leaders, Managers, Followers:
We are animals who can reason & learn
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Mentoring and Coaching
Driven by
mentee
listen
Mentor
1 to 1
Driven by
coach
tell
Coach
groups
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Changing styles through coaching
Direction
Guidance
Supporting
Listening
Engaging
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Influence, Habits and Triggers
Cue Reward
Routine
New
routine
The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do and how to change By Charles Duhigg
Trickster Makes This World By Lewis Hyde
Healthier
reward
Identify the routine
Experiment with rewards
Isolate the cue
Have a plan
New cue
Disrupt
your habit
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Coaching: “Say this mantra and be
compassionate to yourself, first”
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Mentoring:
“What is your purpose?”
Be Happy - Do Good
Leave the world a better place
than I found it
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In order to thrive…
• Remember, we are animals, often in teams
– Leaders, managers and followers
• We interact in different ways…
– Different people - different leadership styles
– Different people - different followership styles
• We are animals of habit & territory…
– Respect other people’s habits & territory
• We are animals who can reason & learn
– You can change yourself (mentoring, coaching)
– You can influence others (mentoring, coaching)
– Be(a)ware of parasites
– You can be happy, you can do good
– Leave the world a better place than you found it
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Leading - Following – Managing
You can help your group thrive
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www.isabelevans.uk
Namaste, Agile India,
Thank you for listening
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References
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solitary_animals
• http://www.lucidity.org.uk/animal/
• BBC wildlife documentaries e.g. Frozen Planet
• Jane Goodall: The Chimpanzees of Gombe
• Hegel: http://bit.ly/2aHszAH
• Catherine Hezser: http://bit.ly/2a83sTo
• Berne: Games people play
• Abe Wagner: The transactional manager
• Warren Bennis: On Becoming a Leader http://bit.ly/K2hcAH quoted in http://www.buzzle.com/articles/autocratic-
leadership-style.html
• http://bit.ly/2bn4OxL
• http://bit.ly/1JnwcUd
• Leadership Styles diagram from Australian Leadership Foundation tweeted by Sharon Robson
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Followership
• Ellis: Animal behaviour and its implications
• Raes & Evans Workshop: Leave me alone, I’m hiding from my team
• Thomas: Workshop: Becoming a Programme Test Manager (www.badgerscroft.com)
• Evans: Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork
• http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-010-0338-5: Decision making at a crossroad: why to go straight ahead,
retrace a path, or turn sideways? Miller, M. & Eilam, D. Anim Cogn (2011) 14: 11. doi:10.1007/s10071-010-0338-5
• Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit Why we do what we do and how to change
• Lewis Hyde: Trickster makes this world
• Harty: Bridging the Gap Between Testers and Developers EuroSTAR 2004
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/06/25/ten-policies-youll-find-in-every-toxic-workplace/#a2dce16618e6
• Australian Leadership Foundation Leadership Styles matrix, tweeted by Sharon Robson
• Raes & Evans “Leave me alone! I’m hiding from my team!”