Discover Your Change – Page 9 – Socratic Conversations, Strong Coherent Teams, Clear Direction

Discover Your Direction one Step at a Time
Find direction by identifying & tracking incremental steps forward.
Discover Your Path
You know you better than any expert. Socratic conversations lead to self-discovery.
Discover the Wisdom of Your Teams
Your teams collective wisdom is wiser than the most knowledgeable person in the room.

Where is life taking you?

We all possess the creative ability to reach our personal and professional goals. Sometimes all we need is someone to help us unlock that potential. Coaching unleashes a thought provoking and creative process giving you the ability to maximize your personal and professional potential. Organizationally, coaching unleashes the amazing wisdom of teams. Coaching does this by creating an environment for diversity of opinion, independence, decentralization and aggregation. Socratic conversations lie at the heard of discovery. As an individual or team, you possess all you need to discover your next step.

Enjoy Socratic Conversations

You know your wishes and desires better than any expert. Engage in Socratic conversations with your coach. lead to self-discovery.

Unleash the Creativity of your Teams

Teams possess all the wisdom needed to discover how to work together in a competitive, diverse and complex world.

Discover Your Direction one Step at a Time

Know you're improvement experiments are working by setting clear measurable goals.

Managing Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds – Introduction

Jul 18, 2013LarryManaging Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds, Quality & ValueLarry Lawhead, managing software tests, managing test rounds, software test management, Software testing

Thus far we have discussed two fundamental areas of testing software. These are Architecting the Environment (Principles behind setting up hardware environments.) Quality Assurance Management (Principles behind managing QA projects.) Now we are ready to discuss Managing Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds (Principles and examples for managing testing rounds.) Each test round is a separate

A Balanced Approach to Software Testing

Jul 3, 2013LarryQuality & Value, Quality Assurance Planningfinding a balance, flexibility, Larry Lawhead, planing, quality assurance, quality assurance management

In his reconstruction speech given to Congress on April 11, 1865, Abraham Lincoln warned the nation that creating inflexible plans will, “…become a new entanglement”. The quality assurance manager can draw a number of lessons from the broader context of the speech. Here is the complete thought. …so new and unprecedented is the whole case,

Quality Assurance Planning – Part Five (A Final Word – Nothing trumps experience)

Jul 3, 2013LarryQuality & Value, Quality Assurance Planningexperience, Larry Lawhead, learning from failure, planing, quality assurance, quality assurance management

You will become better at planning your test cycles the more often you execute them. There is no substitute for experience. A plan is basically a prioritized list of tasks assigned to a resource. A plan is like a noun. It describes but accomplishes nothing. It is the schedule that moves your plan into action.

Quality Assurance Planning – Part Four (Selecting the Appropriate Test Type)

Jul 3, 2013LarryQuality & Value, Quality Assurance PlanningLarry Lawhead, planing, quality assurance, quality assurance management, selecting which test, test type

Here is how I break-down quality assurance types and what questions I ask to determine which should be included in the test cycle: Development (Have the coding architectural errors been identified and resolved? This can only done as a white box test and requires a code review.) Installation (Does the application come on line after