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I've spent the last few weeks putting together a course entitled "Effective Test Management". A lot of the material has been delivered before under various contexts for a variety of clients and a large part of the work has been converting all of this disparate material into a standard format and making sure that all client specific references have been removed both from the slidepacks and the exercise material

This exercise is now more or less complete and I have come to realise a couple of things

1. That to do the subject matter justice the course, as currently written should probably be 3 days long rather than the original 2, particularly if I want to preserve an appropriate level of interactivity within the sessions
2. That as currently constituted the course starts to drag a little in the middle and if it feels a bit of a slog for me as the author/presenter I can only imagine it would be worse for the attendee
   

I do however think that the base material within the course is worth presenting so have decided to move forward as following

A. I have extracted the sessions and exercises relating to Test Strategies and Test Plans and turned them into a 1 day entitled "Effective Test Strategies and Plans"

This is uploaded to the website and is ready for you to download and present

B. It may be possible to do the same for the other elements in the course and for example run 2 further 1 day courses entitled "Building and Sustaining an Effective Test Team" and "Managing an Effective Test Process" but I am also thinking that it might actually be better to present the material in a completely different way interweaving all the different threads to show how Effective Test Management is more a matter of successfully combining lots and lots of small changes and processes across multiple areas than a sudden radical step change.

This would require some major rework on my part. Expect some updates on this in the weeks to come