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Practice Sessions

Practice debriefing. Imagine that you’ve just stepped into an elevator with an executive in your company. She asks, “So, how’s it looking?” It’s a short elevator ride, just a floor or two. You have sixty seconds to give her an honest and balanced report. What would you say?

Find something you know that others don’t, and document it. Perhaps you know how to set up some critical aspect of the test environment. Maybe you know where to snag production-like data. Or maybe it’s something as simple as a scripting trick to generate realistic data for exploring. Whatever it is, there is certainly something that you know that others on your team would value. Figure out what that nugget of wisdom is and capture it in your team’s central ...