Kickoff the Testing & Quality Leadership Summit with a reception and some networking.
Testing & Quality Leadership Summit
Leading the Charge within Your Organization
Thursday, October 1 (evening) and Friday, October 2 (all day)
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All too often leadership is confused with management. Whether you are currently part of the management team or not, you can be a leader within your organization and drive success. Join in the conversation with your peers as experienced technology leaders share ways to lead an organization from within. Discover how seasoned leaders drive change and motivate staff—even as they accelerate their own careers. • Participate in insightful and informative sessions focusing on leadership issues |
First-year computer science students learn a lot about algorithms and data structures. First-time leaders often think about how they are going to lead (algorithms) without giving much thought to how to organize for success (data structures). Join Mike Fulkerson in an engaging discussion on Data Structures for Leadership—successful structures for helping teams organize their work, leaders cultivate future leaders, engineers lead from within, and more. Mike shares practical leadership techniques he has gleaned from his experience as a public company CTO and a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy.
The ability to change to meet the evolving business environments is critical to the success of any organization. Leading an organization through change is one of the greatest challenges that leaders face. In this interactive presentation, Cynthia Gilmer discusses some of the most critical aspects of the cycle of corporate change and a leader’s role in realizing successful transformation. Cynthia will cover the change cycle from the point where the need for change is recognized through the creation and execution of a vision, focusing on those activities that are critical to success. Take home valuable lessons on the leader’s role at every level in the change cycle, how to be a leader of change, what activities are critical to successful change, understanding the team dynamics of executing change, evaluating the effectiveness of change, and how to best communicate change throughout the change cycle.
Join your peers in an engaging and highly interactive session to discuss the issues that affect you most. Using answers to the question As a Leader, What Is Keeping You Up at Night? posed at Thursday evening’s reception, participants will form small groups to work on finding solutions to pressing test management issues. Discussions will review identified issues, barriers to change, and focus on innovative strategies and practical next steps.
At the end of the think tank, all feedback will be collected and posted online to encourage further collaboration.
Think Tank discussions continue...
Think Tank discussions continue...
This concludes the Testing & Quality Leadership Summit.