Ensuring that the test process is as efficient and effective as it can be facilitates an agility within testing and empowers the test effort to react to change positively and agilely.

The presentation will :

• demonstrate how a team of testers came together and contributed to the improvement of various testing processes and activities.
• address how "easy" change becomes within the testing organization when it is driven by the testers themselves.
• show how test management can facilitate the empowering of its testers while still maintaining a decorum of control.
• address how the usual resistance to change was surmounted by a TPI effort driven by those who are executing the testing.
• include feedback from a recently held Retrospective with Lessons Learned clearly elaborated on.

The distributed nature of Virtual Teams, characterised by the absence of daily face to face interaction, can result in unique challenges, typically around effective communication and trust.

• The presentation will demonstrate how basic assumptions around communication and cultural can impact effective team integration .
• It will address how to navigate and work with cultural norms.
• The presentation will show how test management can facilitate trust building, ensuring effective progression while limiting micro management.