Pre-3 :  Leading Agile & High Performance Test Teams
Monday, 9:00am - 4:00pm

 
Track:

So much of the conversation in leadership-centric workshops circles around management techniques, for example how to plan, measure and execute test activities.  But when you get right down to it, those are the least impactful and more tactical aspects of test team leadership—and arguably, those skills have become commoditized.

Certainly they don’t differentiate your teams and your leadership. And certainly they don’t drive your outcomes towards highly valued performance. In this workshop we’ll focus away from the tactical and look to direct your leadership towards high value, high impact, and agile practices that will differentiate you and your teams.

 We’ll explore how to hire and build a high performance team, and how to measure and motivate your teams with powerful goals. We’ll also examine how the agile methods are providing lessons in how to create powerful test teams that focus more on partnerships, driving business value, and how to effectively communicate value. You’ll leave with renewed energy and game changing techniques that will inspire your teams.

Learning Points:

• Effective techniques for interviewing and selecting true game-changing team members
• How to motivate, inspire, grow, and challenge your top performers
• How ‘Agile’ has become a differentiator in leading self-directed teams and how to do it well
• Models for changing your value proposition from “testing in quality” to “inspiring up-front quality”
• How to maintain transparency as a mechanism for negotiation, measurement, and clarity
• In short, you’ll leave a more nuanced, effective, and balanced leader…

Bob Galen

Agile Consultant and Coach, Deutsche Bank Global Technology

Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and practices. He is currently the Director of R&D and Agile Coach at iContact, an email marketing SaaS provider. He has over 25 years of experience working in a wide variety of domains at companies including Bayer, Bowe–Bell & Howell Mail Processing, ChannelAdvisor, EMC, Lucent, Unisys and Thomson.  He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSP) practicing since 2004, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance & Scrum Alliance.   Bob may be reached directly at: bob@rgalen.com or bob.galen@icontact.com and for more information:www.rgalen.com