What win(s) do you have this week? Share them here so we can celebrate them with you 
My wins for this week:
yup, I’m the same. Good you did it
Totally unplanned, but the check in meeting I had with my manager this week evolved in talking about my ideas on changes to be made in our department, and how I see myself playing a role in executing some of those ideas. I see plenty of opportunities for me to take on new challenges, and grow.
Tough week this has been. Low motivation that I couldn’t pinpoint why it happened.
It took me 5 days to get myself going again.
The only good thing to happen during my low motivation days was the MoT panel last Tuesday on critical thinking. It was so nice to see Jit, Gwen, Elizabeth and to talk about such a nice topic.
Yes! Excellent news Peet 
I think the win in this is that you tried to pinpoint why it happened. That takes a lot of courage 
Best thread each week!!
I’ve worked in a few different companies, and have left mostly because I felt undervalued and underutilised.
I started working for my current place last March. I’ve recently been working on a large project and have done all the testing on it in a short timeframe. In a “go-live” meeting with the directors today I told them I don’t recommend it to go live, stated the statistics that lead me to this, and said what should happen for it to get my positive recommendation. We had a discussion around the remaining work and a rough estimate for how long it will take. They then thanked me and said we’d reconvene in 2 weeks and see how we’re doing then. It’s the first time I’ve genuinely been listened to because of my expertise.
Oh, and not this week, but recently, my boss agreed with me that I need a role change to reflect the responsibilities I’ve actually been doing, so we’re gonna come up with a new job spec for the job I’ve been doing and get it made official (with title change and salary update to match).
That’s great to hear Carly. Sounds like you’re in a much better place now than last year
This month I participated in a MoT podcast about accessibility testing. It went live this week.
The absolutely massive deployment that moved our main applications from locally hosted servers to cloud-based servers (and upgraded the hosting servers and databases from obsolete, no longer supported operating systems to something more modern) happened with only minor glitches.
The impact hasn’t fully sunk in yet, but it’s out there, it’s not reversible, and so far all is well.
I gave a lightning talk yesterday at work to illustrate what can happen when you write tests that don’t get run for whatever reason. I think the concept might have surprised a few people, and hopefully those people decided to double-check their build pipelines to make sure their specs are actually being executed.
I also found some potential easy wins for improving our current code coverage and am excited to work on that.
Although I have been struggling under deeper and deeper load exploratory testing functionality that was impossible to automate because it keeps changing faster than one can hope to keep up with, I did have some wins.
Like a few others, been a week of generally low motivation but there were a few good things