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 :-)

• Over schedule
• Multitask
• Overwork yourself and others
• Let small issues develop into huge ones

1st Session: Yaron Tsubery, Comverse, on "The Psychology Behind Test Management" Yaron started off the morning with a presentation that can be summed up in three words: "Communication, Communication, Communication". Yaron started off with 4 messages that he then elaborated upon during the presentation: After that, he moved on