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Applying Ideas From Conferences for Organizational Change

Fanny Pittack and Alex Schwartz gave a presentation about insights from happy change agents at the Agile Testing Day Netherlands 2015. They talked about the challenges that people can have when they learn an idea at a conference and try to apply it in their work environment, and practiced a a change dojo with the attendants and provided suggestions to do successful change in organizations.
Schwartz told his story about a change that he did to getting rid of a tool. At a conference he learned to avoid tools that are only used by one tester. Back at work he tried to convince the QA team to get rid of a specific tool, but the people that he was working with were not happy about that. In the end the tool was removed, so the change goal was achieved. But the relationship between him and his colleagues was damaged, making future cooperation and doing change more difficult.

You have to focus on identifying the problem, understanding it well, and agree on it