Targeting Quality 2019

NOTE: You will be added by the KWSQA to the workshop you chose during registration at https://targetingquality.ca

Change. Everyone has to deal with it at some point. Many people don’t like it. What do you do when your VP comes in on a Tuesday morning and says “we’re going to do Agile, starting today” or “welcome to your new org structure”? What if your director gets let go, out of the blue? Or your entire team (leaving you on a quality island)? What if you are brought in to inflict help (change) on others? How do you maintain, or improve your products quality when the world around you seems to be spiraling out of control?

In this workshop, we will talk about change. We will talk about some of the changes we have encountered, how those changes have affected us, and what we did to make sure our products didn’t fall over in the middle of everything else going on around us. Through facilitated interactions, and exercises, we hope to show you some ways for handling change well (and some ways to NOT handle it well). Let’s work on handling change together, from Identifying the real issue in a situation to ways you can be a champion of quality through a changing organizational landscape.

Key Learnings:
Strategies for identifying what changes are happening in your organization and how it actually impacts you
Strategies for advocating concerns
Ways to be an agent of change

Prerequisites:
Bring your stories of change, and your willingness to learn from others
Laptop/Notebook for notes

Target Audience:
Anyone new to testing, new to organizational change, or anyone who wants to learn how others deal with change