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Test Management SummitLondon, 28 January 2009
Survival Skills for Difficult TimesBogdan Bereza-Jarociński
Survival Skills for Difficult Times(12-slides version for handouts only)
Test Management Summit, 28 Jan. 2009
(inspired by www.homocreatore.pl)
Mount St. Helens, 1982
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Test Management SummitLondon, 28 January 2009
Survival Skills for Difficult TimesBogdan Bereza-Jarociński
Great Survivors: Good & Bad
Francisco FrancoRichard BransonMother TeresaFridtjof Nansen
Steve JobsKen Wilber Andrei Gromyko Lech Wałęsa
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Survival Skills for Difficult TimesBogdan Bereza-Jarociński
Survival – Avoiding Crises• Avoiding crisis means sound Software
Engineering & Project Management practices, especially:– Requirements Engineering– Risk Management– Configuration Management– Testing– Mature processes– Measurements
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Survival - Mitigation• Risk management – contingences• Sound financial politics• Information security• Avoiding bottlenecks – integral quality (total
quality, CMMI)• Management by values• Proactive instead of reactive policies• Corporate culture
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Survival Skills for Difficult TimesBogdan Bereza-Jarociński
Survival in Organizational Culture• Clan culture• Adhocracy culture• Hierarchy culture• Market culture• Tough-Guy Macho Culture• Blame culture• Rituals and routines• Masculinity vs. femininity
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Assertiveness• Feel free to express your feelings,
thoughts, and desires• Know your rights• Control (not repress) your anger• Ghandi• Feel good about yourself
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Negotiation Skills• Assertiveness• Positive emotions• Look for win-win solutions• Feedback• Direct communication, telephone, e-
mail and chat, SMS• Non-verbal communication• Games people play Eric Berne
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Survival Skills for Difficult TimesBogdan Bereza-Jarociński
Stress Management• Signs of workplace stress:– Mood and sleep disturbances– Upset stomach, headache– Disturbed relationships
• Prevention:– Workload– Design jobs to provide meaning and stimulation– Clearly define roles and responsibilities– Opportunities to participate
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Creativity in Survival• Doing things differently• Change design and implementation• Finding joy in everyday activities• Cutting costs without suffering• Finding ways out of difficult situations• Using new technologies• Using your brains• Using your intuition
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Survival Skills for Difficult TimesBogdan Bereza-Jarociński
Pessimism vs. Optimism• Martin Seligman (Learned Optimism,
Authentic Happiness)
• Mihály Csíkszentmihályi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• Richard Wiseman (The Luck Factor, Quirkology)
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Organizational Culture• Various organizational cultures respond to
crisis in different ways• Edgar Schein• Geert Hofstede• Deal & Kennedy• Charles Handy• Arthur F. Carmazzi• Kim S. Cameron & Robert E. Quinn
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Happy in Spite of Crisis?• Eckhart Tolle• www.eckharttolle.com• The book has helped countless people
around the globe awaken to the spiritual dimension in their lives, find inner peace, increased joy and more harmonious relationship