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Making Teams Awesome
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
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A Job Description for me: 20 – 60 % of hands-on testing 20 – 60 % of helping others test Rest: do whatever you like that is beneficial for the company
Jukka Talvio Manager Extraordinaire Quality Director, HERE Consumer
2005
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Just a tester
* but no one is just anything
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We aren’t here to make a great product or a great company, but rather to make our customers awesome at whatever they do with our products or services. –Kathy Sierra, Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Make People Awesome
http://modernagile.org
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An industry of learning
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The 5-Year Rule
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5.5 hrs of learning and 2.5 hrs of working puts you ahead after 1 year if the gain daily is 1%.
- Llewellyn Falco
http://lfal.co/LearningHourROI
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Every day when I come to work, my goal is to be better after the
day.
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Catalyst Conscience
Cheerleader Critical thinker
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Catalyst increasing rate of reaction
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Productivity vs. Generativity
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It’s not that I’m so smart,
I just stay with the
problems longer.
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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/
“Mileva Marić Einstein was a physicist who contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.”
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Best ideas win when you care
about work over credit
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thinking in systems growth mindset holding space
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It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is
to get permission. – Grace Hopper
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From Gatekeeper to
Advisor
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Conscience sense of right and wrong
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Who is on a team matters less than how the team
members interact, structure their work, and view their
contributions. –Project Aristoteles, Google
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Safety is a prerequisite for
learning
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People aren’t afraid of failure, they’re
afraid of blame. –Seth Godin
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Being brave when others are not with a survivorship bias warning
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Avoiding decision is a
decision
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Cognitive Dissonance and Bias to Action
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Cheerleader power of the positive
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What ever anybody says or does, assume
positive intent. – Indra Nooyi
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Nature of trust and liking
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Critical Thinker seeing things others don’t
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Testers don’t break the code, they break your illusions about
the code. - Adapted from James Bach
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"All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in
the same space, on the same computer." -- Woody Zuill
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Catalyst Conscience
Cheerleader Critical thinker
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Maaret Pyhäjärvi Email: maaret@iki.fi Twitter: @maaretp Web: maaretp.com Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi (please connect with me through Twitter or LinkedIn)
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