What is Your Goal For September?

[testervenkat (Venkat Ramakrishnan)]

Pomodoro is a good one. Also, try to alternate focused thinking work
and free thinking work.

[testervenkat (Venkat Ramakrishnan)]

“What does Quality mean to you?”

[a_miller (Alaine)]

@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

[dtorquiano (David T)]

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.

[heather_reid]

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

[shamaho (Shafik)]

@jon_thompson

My goal is to complete my first read through of the ISTQB Agile Foundations textbook.

Works wonders for insomnia !

[dtorquiano (David T)]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[jon_thompson]

It certainly does!

[melissafisher]

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.

[seasidetesting (Stephan Kämper)]

Professional: Completing the workshops I’ll offer at the Agile Testing Days
Personal:

1. Continuing going to the gym ≥3 times a week
2. Continuing to go swimming in the North Sea (this one may turn out to be a bit… tough

[sarahk (Sarah Kitchener)]

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

[brian_seg (Brian Segurson)]

@brian_seg

Professional: Get my (inherited from another tester) automated tests up to 100% working
Professional: Get to the point where newly implemented funcationality goes to me to test by default (programmers are currently doing most of their own testing, which is good… but not desired… yet) (Interesting side point … very long term goals (multi-year) might actually BE programmers doing their own testing, but we aren’t there yet.)
Personal: Now that the house is renovated, move back in by October.

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.

[mike_123 (Mike lang)]

Do people use any tools to help track or monitor the progress of goals?

[heather_reid]

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

[mike_123 (Mike lang)]

All my post its fall to the floor