Practice what you preach.

All companies do it, or rather; don't do it. They do not practice what they preach within their own department. A gardeners’ garden will probably look like it's never been used. a cooks kitchen looks like he had the same one when he was still studying and the IT infrastructure of an IT company still looks like everyone thought they had the best idea, but never integrated it.

Even within a large company as Capgemini, only recently a new intranet was introduced and not only that, standardized across the world. So now every sector, every department and every country has the same intranet look and feel and we can finally say we are one team!

With this collaboration within our own company we as testing community still where completely divided. Sure top management was connected, projects where connected and within our own companies we were connected. But most of the time we had no idea what was happening on the testing area in e.g. Australia (do they even test there?).

So it was time for more integration and collaboration using our new Knowledge Management system (km20) and Wiki. Accompanied with this should (of course) be a newsletter with all the testing news of "what's going on with our colleagues".

and finally it happened; the launch of the Global Testing & QA community:



Every month there will be testing news from around the globe delivered in our inboxes. Everyone can add their assets to the KM20 and every person can add his own testing knowledge or information on the wiki.

Is this going to work in contrary to what we had? I think so as a firm believer of the "Open platforms" (like wiki) and "knowledge sharing". I like to know what's happening out there even if it doesn't really affect my way of working. As long as I know...