What’s your win this week? Either personal or professional or both - let’s celebrate them together!
My wins are:
Started doing some release planning myself.
Finishing up our huge sprint where I had to do some facial recognition testing! Which was really fun to do, I had to compare my ID and make a video, so I uploaded this screenshot of Chewbacca as my ID and the AI said: 'Looks suspicious, manual verification required" >.<
I’ve been hanging out more in the Testers Hangout and met some awesome people for the first time! Thanks guys for the great times!
Gave up some holidays so I can work more!
Personal wins
I started making my own chocolates
Let me know what you guys your wins … or fails are!
Wrote some internal Confluence documentation for onboarding of new testers and got nice feedback from my co-workers
Started a consulting side-gig doing testing consultant work for a small start-up and in collaboration with their Scrum Master and PO started making implementing a testing process
Done some refining for the test strategy on the project I’m on (up-to the point mind-map in Miro)
Personal:
Listened to a lot of testing podcasts in the past few days, MoT’s podcast and the one from Qualitest
Continued working on a draft for this month’s Bloggers Club challenge
Got an offer to write an article for the TestProject!
Done some pro-bono mentoring, helped an aspiring junior tester to prepare for the job interview
Wins for me revolved around surviving my first family music festival with my kids. Great fun camping! Good times all round. I also got to unexpectedly play drums again!
Work wins this week have been about conversations with good people. I had an excellent chat with @antonella. We explored various ideas. We also discussed the importance of inclusive language in community, particularly the relationship it has with languages that are deemed regulated. As someone who can only speak English, I learnt a lot.
I also had a brilliant catchup with @mwinteringham where we explored how we could use data, assumptions and experimentation to better serve our Pro customers.
Plus I got to work with @mirza and @kristof to select a Club Ninja of the Month for July – my first time doing that.
I had a very productive first week back after my holidays
Onboarding of new colleague is going well. Some of the initiatives I put in place for that were well received by the new start, manager, and colleagues.
Reminds me @simon_tomes , I’m still up for a Racket with you
Used Pact for the first time ever to help put a small part of the PHP codebase using an old version of an http client under test before upgrading it by 3 major/breaking versions (had been struggling on thinking how to do this safely for over a week beforehand)
