The document provides guidance on how to build a great test team. It emphasizes establishing a clear vision that is communicated to the team. It also stresses the importance of diversity in skills, backgrounds, and personalities on the team. Additionally, it discusses the need for leadership that motivates and inspires team members. The document advises getting to know each team member, bringing the team together through activities, and providing opportunities for all members to succeed and shine.

1. How to Build a Great Test Team

2. Who am I?

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5. • Vision
• Diversity
• Leadership
• Get to know them
• Bringing them together
• What can you do (how to be an Avenger)?

6. Vision
noun - the ability to think about or plan the
future with imagination or wisdom.

7. • What is your teams vision?
• What is your WHY? This is where is
starts…
• Mission? Skillset? Tools?
• How is this communicated?
• What is your language?

8. How do you interview?
How do you build your team?
What are you after?

9. Diversity
noun - the condition of having or being
composed of differing elements : variety;
especially : the inclusion of different types
of people in a group or organisation

10. • What types of testers do you have?
• What type of skillsets do you have?
• Gender?
• Occupational backgrounds
• Leaders?
• Extroverts and Introverts

11. Leadership
noun - the power or ability to lead other people

12. • Are you …
• Motivating?
• Inspiring?
• Fun to be around?
• Know how to set expectations?
• Are you a manager or a leader?
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because they want to do it.”

13. “You are good. But it is not enough just to
be good. You must be good for
something…you can and must rise above
mediocrity, above indifference. You can
become involved and speak with a strong
voice for that which is right.”
Gordon B. Hinckley

14. Get to know them…

15. • Stand ups
• Mentoring sessions and regular catch ups
– Formal and informal
• Be interested in your people
• Correct if need be, then love them…
• Give people the opportunity to *shine*
He aha te mea nui o te ao?
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata

16. Bringing them together…

17. • Define your vision
• Bring in the people you need (not just
skills)
• Empower, uplift and motivate…
• Give opportunities to people to succeed
• “If you ain’t the lead dawg, the view is
always the same…”

18. What can you do
(how to be an Avenger)?

19. How to be an Avenger…
• Seek understanding and knowledge…be
proactive
• Find a mentor(s)
• Be active in the community…
• Blog
• Tweet
• Challenge and be challenged…

20. Questions?