Effective Distributed Test Teams

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Making Distributed Tes%ng Teams Work (Eﬀec%vely, Even!)

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 @aJimHolmes FrazzledDad.com bit.ly/JimAtTestStudio Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 What Makes Great Distributed Test Teams?

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 The same things that make great co-‐located teams!

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 This is the op%mum Menlo Ins%tute (www.menloinnova%ons.com) in Ann Arbor, MI. Courtesy of @RobGibbens

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0

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Map: h-p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/BlankMap-‐World-‐large.png Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 This was the my reality

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 How to get from this to this? Map: h-p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/BlankMap-‐World-‐ large.png

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Deal With 9 Trust Communica9on Process

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Deal With Trust

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Find Great Folks

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Use Your Networks

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Ge]ng unknown referrals?

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Use A Ques%onnaire h-p://bit.ly/eiLsu2

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 PAIRING!

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Working with subcontractors?

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 USE THE SAME PROCESS!

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Mindset Ma-ers (lots)

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Deal With Communica9on

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 GIVEN I have an issue to discuss WHEN I chose how to communicate THEN phone or Skype are greater than instant message AND instant message is greater than e-‐mail

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Time Zones Ma-er 6 PM 12 AM 3 PM

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Find Great Tools

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 (or at least ones that suck the least)

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Get Communica%ng IM + Skype, FTW! Campﬁrenow.com IRC

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Interac%ve / Pairing SharedView (Windows) TeamViewer ($) Join.me

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Sharing (one way) WebEx.com LiveMee%ng GotoMee%ng.com

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 29 Photo: Mike Thomas http://tinyurl.com/2av8aqd/

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Deal With Process

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Op%mal Courtesy of @TimWingﬁeld

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Work Tracking AgileZen Pivotal Tracker Unfuddle Hosted TFS

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Boost Collabora%on

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Collabora%on Isn’t Just a Buzzword

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Planning / Storyboarding Cardmapping.com

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Share Notes Titanpad.com

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 DO YUR RETROSPECTIVZ, K? Twiddla.com

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 The Mechanics of Tes%ng

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Distributed Tes%ng == More Infrastructure

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Distributed Tes%ng == More Self-‐Reliance

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Distributed Tes%ng == More Automa%on

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 A Day In The Life...

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Whole Team Standup

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Whole Team Standup Not just “Test Team”

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Leverage Timezones (And OVER communicate!)

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Leverage Skills (Automa%on, exploratory, building support APIs, baseline datasets, etc.)

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Don’t Skip Slack Time

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 What Makes Great Distributed Test Teams?

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 The same things that make great co-‐located teams!

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Crea%ve Commons A-ribu%on Non-‐Commercial Share Alike 3.0 @aJimHolmes FrazzledDad.com bit.ly/JimAtTestStudio Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com