How was your March?

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Try the following:

  1. Take a moment to move away from where you typically hang out
  2. Start a 10-minute timer
  3. With March 2023 in mind, write down/draw/record the things that you are most proud of
  4. Stop the timer at 10 minutes and reply with whatever revealed itself.

Let’s celebrate your month of March with the community. :trophy: :tada:

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I love doing this at the end of the month /year, plus I am a big fan of tracking stuff and creating statistics (I have an Excel for my yearly goals :sweat_smile:).
After writing it down, it seems that March has been a good month for me:

  • I wrote 4 new articles on Medium, including my favorite one so far: https://medium.com/me/stats/post/a83106f51797
  • Managed to attend a lot of the talks at TestBash 2023 (will watch the recordings in the near future, too)
  • I designed part of the assignments for an entry-level job opening (coding exercises, and where to test finding bugs)
  • Spent a lot of time on fairly complex project debugging and fixing a lot of the existing code
  • I ran 167km
  • I finished 4 books
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It’s been really busy, but very productive!

  • TestBash Spring was a real treat! I gotta say with each TestBash I feel more and more comfortable, this time I didn’t feel nervous at all. To me, this just goes to show how much a healthy and supportive community means - especially for more introverted folks like myself.
  • I caught up on a ton of interesting podcast episodes (like AB Testing, MoT’s podcasts, and the Testing Show), and right now I’m binge-listening to the Test Guild automation podcast.
  • Started planning the next live MoT Sarajevo meetup - more details soon
  • Watched a lot of courses on soft skills, mostly on Pluralsight
  • Learning more about test management
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Not too bad, I think. :smile:

  • Spent nearly 30 hours training and burnt nearly 20.000 kcal while doing it
  • Submitted three sessions to the Agile Testing Days
  • Took a 1-week intensive Danish course
  • Fixed a bug in the Cucucmber docs
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Start Great!

Middle Good!

Ending Bad! (Caught up with Viral and post Viral complications) :frowning:

Looking forward to a good April now :slight_smile:

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I remember March 2023 for:

  • I found a new job
  • I ran my first marathon below 4 hours
  • I picked up blogging again and I wrote each week a blog post
  • I got a certification ISTQB test automation engineer
  • I was really surprised that the developers in my team wrote a lot of integration tests while I was on holiday
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It was awesome,

  • My new boss joined here he came from the USA, and worked there for 30 years as a QA so lot to learn
  • Took my master’s convocation
  • Learning new things
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I think I read all 4 of them. Really nice stuff.

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March has been largely Personal, but.

  • Finally Completed step 1 of test automation for a product we launched almost a year back. (For reasons we did not automate then.)
  • Got good feedback from managers that I’m documenting and sharing knowledge well. (But will continue to do so.)
  • Missed Testbash online sadly due to a release that week. (But we are now releasing more often and streamlining, so its a win.)
  • Taught my self to repoint brickwork (badly.) Which is horrid work, but despite the pain a source of self pride.
  • Campanology accomplishment! Can now dodge a bell and make places (means I have enough control to start to ring changes and patterns but not yet ring methods.) Hope to actually be able to ring properly soon. I also secured our first playing gig, although I have yet to form a band.
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Congrats on all the achievements! Especially the sub-4 marathon :clap::clap:

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Hi!
The things I did in march are:

  • Attended an interesting talk about real life examples of people abusing product design.
  • I completed a pluralsite course on Python
  • I also created a POC for K6
  • I missed the TestBash, but that was because I was preparing and hosting a Threat modelling session using @oxygenaddict’s Threat agents.
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