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Test Management Track (ii), SIGiST Israel 2008

OK, I've caught up on sleep after 2 very busy days at SIGiST 2008. And looking at my blog posts till now, I think that I'm going to do a few shorter ones for a bit. Here's the next session from Tuesday's Test Management track. 2nd Session: Katy Podolner-Rotman, Aternity, on "Surviving "crunch time": Dealing with constant change, high workload and communication issues". Katy started off by giving us her list of "unwritten rules" about how to deal with these issues at crunch time: DO:

  • Plan for tired people
  • Make time for rest/fun
  • Appreciate people's work and effort
  • Improve "while running"
  • Communicate - within the team and between teams
  • Laugh :-)
DONTs:
  • Over schedule
  • Multitask
  • Overwork yourself and others
  • Let small issues develop into huge ones
I like these rules.
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June 26th, 2008 by debizyx
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