Sounds ace. I do similar. Mute slack, only open tabs I need, hide phone, chill playlist, focus on one task. I’m still working on it, but it’s getting easier. Practice makes practically perfect.
My goal is to complete my first read through of the ISTQB Agile Foundations textbook.
That was awful for me. Lots of confusion and non-relevant, weak or conflicting statements.
I skimmed for 30 minutes the book. Then did the exam for fun. Passed with about 80%. More than 50% of the exam questions had either wrong questions or partially correct answers.
Since that point(~3 years ago) I decided not to touch anything ISTQB related even for checking out stuff they do.
For the same amount of money for paying just the exam for ISTQB you can do a BBST or a RST Explored online class.
I’m going, as some of the other peers in Context Driven Testing, with the fact that ISTQB is a scam…
My goal for September - try not to check the ministryoftesting club a few times per day, but once every 2 weeks as a first step.
It’s eating too much of my free time…
Professional:
- Know what I’m doing with Node.js
- Complete Architecting on AWS training
- Start a blog
- Help run my first Meet-up
- Tech talk on shift left & shift right
Personal:
- Lose some more weight
- Fit in more exercise
- Sew something
- Make some jewellery
Do you have any thoughts on the topic of your first blog?
Pomodoro is a good one. Also, try to alternate focused thinking work
and free thinking work.
“What does Quality mean to you?”
@oconis I wanted to use it to reinforce what I’m learning. I’ve got some ideas but they were kinda scrapily written down without too much thought. Some were:
- Picking a blog
- Public speaking
- Personal Development
- Agile
- Autonomy
- Community
- Dev series
- Learning at pace
- Hobby impact on creativity
September already!!!
Professional - Write more automated tests using Cypress
Professional- Contribute towards the automation effort
Personal- be more active in communities such as MOT
Personal- I keep telling myself to start a blog to hold myself accountable with my career journey.
There’s a great thread here AMA: How To Start Blogging AMA with Louise Gibbs, Bruce, Chris Armstrong & Lee Marshall @dtorquiano to possibly help with your second personal goal
Works wonders for insomnia !
Wonderful! Thank you!
It certainly does!
Professional: Use my Pro MOT more - get involved with the chat and use the resources.
Personal: Sort my house/garden out now the kids are back at school.
Professional: Completing the workshops I’ll offer at the Agile Testing Days
Personal:
- Continuing going to the gym ≥3 times a week
- Continuing to go swimming in the North Sea (this one may turn out to be a bit… tough
Professional: Post on the club
Professional: Revise for last exam of the year
Professional: Explore things more and fire up the old brain again
Personal: Read for at least 30 mins in the evening, I know this helps me sleep better
Update: I abandoned the first goal and rewrote everything. I have wrote enough that it covers more than the old not-working suite. So I’m calling that a win.
I’m tester-by-default for most of the functionality we are working on. So that is also a win.
And we are fully moved in, so that is a win.
I have to set some more ambitious goals. I still have a week left.
Do people use any tools to help track or monitor the progress of goals?
I go with either a Trello board or a postit on the wall beside me, depending on if there are subtasks I know of or if I want it actioned soon.
I’m very basic
All my post its fall to the floor