Leadership

LeadershipA personal view

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Paul Gerrardpaul@gerrardconsulting.com

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Theme

• Leadership - what is it?• There may be trouble ahead•Will test leaders stand up?

“I must follow the people. Am I not

their leader?”Benjamin Disraeli

Politician’s view

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is

to say thank you. In between, the

leader is a servant” Max DePreeA businessman’s view (Jeeves leadership model?)

“Lead me, follow me, or get out of

my way!”General George

Patton

A soldier’s view

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling

people some place to go. You lead by going

to that place and making a case”

Ken KeseyA radical author’s view

“You don’t need a title to be a leader”

anon

anyone can be a leader (volunteer)

“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing

occasionally to stand alone”

Henry A. Kissingerslings and arrows

“The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men”

Dwight D Eisenhower

Intelligence, imagination and consensus

“I start with the premise that the

function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more

followers”Ralph Nader

now we’re getting there

“Don’t get so far ahead of people that they cannot

follow”

Me

Every now and then, stand still for

a while and let people catch up

Because there’s trouble ahead

(if you don’t want to collaborate)

Definition and Assurance

Bringing Analysis and Testing Together with Business

Stories

TestingBDD/Test-Driven)Trusted

Requirements + Stories

Redistributed testing

Functional Requirements

Build (+little testing) but lots of rework

Testing (lots of checking + bugs)

Trusted Requirements +

StoriesTesting

SAVEDTIME

BDD/Test-Driven

The End of Manual Feature Checking?

Let the tools do it all andfree the testers to do

exploration

Scope of the DictionaryExamplesExamples

Spec by Example, BDD, ATDD etc etc

Intelligent Definition and Assurance Slide 19

Requirement

Goal

Story/Feature

Risks

Examples

Scenarios

Test Log

ManualExecution

AutomatedExecution

Goal and risk network

Intelligent Definition and Assurance Slide 20

Traceabilityachieved in-flight;Business Impact

Analysis becomes possible

Traceability is a by-product of this way of working, not a

difficult afterthought

Coverage

Traceability

• We can report test coverage at all levels• We can also report coverage against any

entry in the glossary (Ubiquitous Language)

• We can also report coverage of processes, paths and process activities (elements)– Don’t forget – processes add the value, not

software!

Business impact analysis becomes viable• We have traceability from goals, risks

through requirements stories and tests• With continuous delivery, these

artefacts are always in synchronisation• We can trust our analyses much more• Most projects that fail should never

have been startedLean starts with choosing the right projects in the first place.

Will Test Leaders Stand Up?

We need to slaughter a few sacred cows

Developers write code; testers test

because developers can’t

No they don’t

Testing doesn’t just apply to existing software, at the

endWe test systems, not

software;We test early, we test often but it might not be called

testing

Testing is about measuring

achievement, not quality

Align delivery with project goals and risks and you’ve

got a seat on the board

Testers don’t own testing anymore

Be a Testmaster

One final quotation…

“I have taken more good out of alcohol

than alcohol has taken out of me”Winston Churchill

Leadership – Thank-YouA personal view

@paul_g

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Paul Gerrardpaul@gerrardconsulting.com

gerrardconsulting.com

References1. 100 Best Quotes on Leadership, Forbes magazine http

://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/10/16/quotes-on-leadership/

2. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_leadership.html

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