I thoroughly enjoyed myself. You should buy Jenga for your next retrospective to gamify it! Thanks for all the feedback too. Itβs given us some great ideas for making some big enhancements to the clinic.
In the spirit of openness about what we want to do to improve Software testing clinic here are the actions we listed that came out of the Retrospective to improve our already awesome sessions:
For everyone
Consider a static meeting place for sessions
Evaluate order of lesson plans and announce session order in advance
Stickers that indicate a new person has come to the clinic so Dan and Mark can chat to them
Explore ideas around ticketing
More frequent retros
Get more conference sponsoring / prizes
For students
Think about ways to get new attendees up to speed / create our own cue cards for attendees to take with them
Reference books and further reading at the end of the session and introduce the forum at each session
Start working with companies for work placements/internship
Think about learning styles of students
Demos of how we tried to carry out an activity
For mentors
Begin with a workshop for mentors
Remove Slack move to MoT forum and set up lesson plan groups
For debriefs rather than share to group have individual groups change mentors to let students debrief to mentor
For Dan and Mark
Review other testers and their content on teaching software testing: Helena - Four-hour tester, Rikard Edgren, Maria Kedemo
More promo on Linkedin and create a Software testing clinic group on Linkedin (Traction)
Finally, if you have some suggestions for ways to improve Software testing clinic, we want to hear them so get in touch on the form