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T O G E T H E RT A L E N T E D
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Power Hour – PH1
Making it Happen – Getting Real Value from EuroSTAR!
Graham Freeburn
+44 (0) 1698 574239, +44(0) 7973 789 464
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Power UP !
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Objectives / Ground Rules
Objectives
How to plan your next steps and actually take them
Get tips from attendees who have been here before on what do
to do (and what to avoid)
Give you a last chance to network in a session and (hopefully)
have some fun
Ground Rules
To get the best out of this session I’d like you all to participate
Respect the views of others
Many of the activities are group based
Extroverts and shapers please note – help everyone to participate!
All mindmaps and other outputs from today will be posted on
www.sopragroup.co.uk shortly after the conference
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If this is your first EuroSTAR
You want take the most (personal and professional) value you can away from this conference
You‟re not sure how to do this
You may (or may not) have been completing the conference Evaluation and ROI worksheet
You have been thinking and talking about testing for the last few days
Assumptions
You are….
If you‟ve been here before…
You‟d like to get more value this time
You‟re prepared to help new attendees
By sharing your experiences
By assisting them to draw up effective action plans
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To…..
Check out the
blog of …?
Contact the
speaker on
session
W..?
Adopt Session Based
Test Management for
ET?
Join the weekend testers?
•Your own lists
•Conference Evaluation and
ROI forms
•From the floor
Reduce lost testing time?
Pilot use of
classification trees?
Find out more about
Lean Kaizen?
Best Ideas
For You? For your team / organisation?
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Things you need to do or
implement NOW
Things you need to do NEXT
Write-up / present what you
have learnt, ideas being
considered to your team /
company
Things you need to research
/ READ
Action
Plan
Is to remember “TASK”
The key to a good action plan
TELL
KNOW SCHEDULE
ACTION
TELL
KNOW (ledge) SCHEDULE
ACTION
Build your initial Action
Plan within 3 (working)
days of attending the
conference
Good Tip!
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Great Sessions!
New Approaches and good practice!
Websites / People to check out!
Examples / Metrics you can use!
Tell
Spread the news !!!
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First
That „number one‟ idea, practice or approach that you must implement, advocate or educate people about or do yourself !
Second
The „next‟ idea idea, practice or approach that was nearly the winner !
Third
The idea, practice or approach that couldn‟t wait till the „next‟ round of improvements.
May be….
Easy / Quick to implement
Address a key weakness or solve a signficiant (known) problem
Be very relevant to a current project or one that is about to start
Be an important piece of the testing jigsaw
Personal (entirely in your control)
Think „top 5‟ and the first three of these should by things to do immediately.
Action
Things to do NOW !
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Everything else
Broken down into phases
Actions for you / your team / your organisation
Delivering and sharing the benefits
Building on your successes
Understanding any failures.
The rest of your top 5
Others that can, or need to be, addressed quickly
Don‟t just go back
to your desk and
go back to the
day job !
Build on you
enthusiasm and
feedback from
teams
Re-inforce the
value you got
from the
conference
Show the ideas,
practices you are
implementing are
making a
difference
Remember that
Personal
improvement is in
YOUR hands.
Work with
everyone on
other changes
EuroSTAR +1 week + 3 weeks +6 weeks +8 weeks +12 weeks
Step 1 Step 2 ………………… Step ‘n’
Schedule
Your plan is….
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Influence = Buy In
Perception of Risk
Capability
Perception of Value
Legitimate Power(Authority)
Leader-ship
InformationPower
Clear Outcomes
Communication
Flexibility
Commitment Collaboration
Trust
Resistance Compliance
Fear
Reason
Friendliness
Coalition
Bargaining
Higher Authority
Assertiveness
Push SalesBargaining Emotional
Pull Assertive Logical Passive
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Use your network
Contacts from this conference, your company, wider testing community, etc.
Share – who you want to tell and involve in delivering the changes?
Support – who you will need to get on board, who could give you metrics, who will need to approve, who could be your management champion?
You
Office Conference
CommunityLinked-In
Twitter Facebook
Use your buddies
You have your own network – and it‟s now a lot bigger!
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Stoppers.
Things that could stop you implementing something.
Blockers.
This which would:• delay something• reduce it‟s effectiveness• reduce the degree of uptake across the business
Stoppers and Blockers
What will stop you…..
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Realising the Benefits
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What benefits? How to get them? Build / Check then Implement Get the Benefits
•Achieve and publicise the benefits.
•Identify the benefits your improvements would make•Map these back to business goals / vision•Develop an approach to make sure these benefits will be realised
•Measures, Baselines•Targets, Responsibilities.
•Define the changes and ensure your plan for their implementation can deliver the benefits•Ensure baseline measures are in place•Implement the changes.
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Benefits Realisation
Delivering value to your organisation
Identify
Implement
Review
Approach
Reap
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Be SMART, not STUPID!
Improvement Objectives
Strategy defined
Management buy-in
Assurance to staff
Risk Analysis
Time critical implementation
Sponsorship not forthcoming
Team members do not function as agents
of change
Unclear vision & commitment
Poorly planned change programme
Inappropriate / insufficient communication
Don’t take account of culture
Source: The Managing Change pocketbook, Neil Russell-Jones , ISBN 1-870471-31-8
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Wrap Up
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Questions???
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Thank you
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