# What's Your Win For The Week? 22nd Jan 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Archive\ **Tags:** career-development\ **Created:** [21 January 2022 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177 "2022-01-21T08:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2022 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/1 "2022-01-21T08:00:37Z")
Have you got a win for this week? Share it here so the community can celebrate with you 🍰 My wins: **Professional** - Ran our first Thursday Testing Tea with @simon_tomes which I feel like was a huge success - Finished adding speakers from historic TestBashes to their talks in our back end so it’ll be easier to search 🤩 **Personal** - Got past my anxiety of telling people I’m changing roles (was afraid of being judged) 💪 What win(s) do you have? ---
**Author:** ![kristof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kristof/32/10839_2.png) [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2022 08:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/2 "2022-01-21T08:12:03Z")
Some quick wins for me nothing major: - Made some good program on cracking boxes on TryHackMe - Learned a lot about hash-cracking this week - Started playing some more online board games 🤩 - Also setup a workshop of Mutation testing - Also going to create an exploration night of Chaos Monkey Testing in the future! Looking forward to steganography boxes next week! ---
**Author:** ![ghawkes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ghawkes/32/10000_2.png) [@ghawkes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ghawkes)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2022 08:29 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/3 "2022-01-21T08:29:10Z")
My Wins: **Professional** - Got ahead in the Team with a migration project allowing one of the team who is interested in a career in project management to own the project - had an offer accepted from a candidate to join our team - influenced a dev restructure to discuss wider implications with Product and QA teams **Personal** - Dog had his dental operation removing 7 teeth and he still tolerates my presence - My house has heating again ---
**Author:** ![pmichielsen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/pmichielsen/32/8959_2.png) [@pmichielsen](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/pmichielsen)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2022 08:39 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/4 "2022-01-21T08:39:04Z")
**Had a very productive week at work**. For me that is a win enough. What probably helped that it was all tasks I like to do. Also cutting down on alcoholic beverages on a school night helps; who knew ---
**Author:** ![melissafisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/melissafisher/32/8020_2.png) [@melissafisher](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/melissafisher)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2022 19:34 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/5 "2022-01-23T19:34:14Z")
Personal: - Got my Covid booster. - Continued to swim, walk, run, walk for triathlon training. Professional: - Hosting a Testing CoP at work - the wonderful @mikeharris joined us! Learned so much about Deming’s work. - Facilitated release testing - one very frustrating issue where we had to track down the root cause - lots of multi tasking. - I was open about the way I was feeling (quite exhausted towards the end of the week) - a mix of busy at work and a mild cold. ---
**Author:** ![mikeharris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mikeharris/32/12295_2.png) [@mikeharris](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mikeharris)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2022 20:05 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/6 "2022-01-23T20:05:00Z")
The highlight of my week was talking to SAGE Testing Tales about W. Edwards Deming’s work. Thank you @melissafisher for inviting me to speak. ---
**Author:** ![han\_toan\_lim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/han_toan_lim/32/7551_2.png) [@han\_toan\_lim](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/han_toan_lim)\ **Post date:** [24 January 2022 07:01 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/7 "2022-01-24T07:01:47Z")
The last week I experimented with telling a story to myself. In the meantime I was constantly changing words and sentences. I might call it exploratory story telling. It is for a blog serie about accessibility and energy management. ---
**Author:** ![mirza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mirza/32/9965_2.png) [@mirza](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mirza)\ **Post date:** [24 January 2022 14:19 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/8 "2022-01-24T14:19:40Z")
Professional: - Agree with the PO to have developers help more with testing, as the issues keep piling up, only a few days later there are 40% fewer tasks in the testing column! Personal: - There were some sales on Good Old Games, and I got myself some RPGs - mostly nostalgic purchases ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/1/1cbffb7a89bdcda6ad1738310c739c1df8625ef5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![simon\_tomes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/simon_tomes/32/14009_2.png) [@simon\_tomes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/simon_tomes)\ **Post date:** [24 January 2022 15:19 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-win-for-the-week-22nd-jan-2022/56177/9 "2022-01-24T15:19:08Z")
Great to read all these wins. 💪🏻🏆 My biggest win was enjoying the small community events @heather_reid and I get to experiment with. We’ve observed brilliant conversations which we hope have helped folks build connections, learn and reflect. They can have a short term impact yet ideally they create long term benefits for those in the community.