testing portugal: making your team awesome as just a tester
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Make Your Team Awesome
- Yes, You Can!
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
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Just a tester
* but no one is just anything
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http://visible-quality.blogspot.fi/2017/03/from-appreciation-of-shallow-testing.html
She's like "I want to exploratory test your ApprovalTests" and I'm like "Yeah, go for it", cause it's all written test first and its code I'm very proud of. And she destroyed it in like an hour and a half.
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Testers don’t break the code, they break your illusions about
the code. - Adapted from James Bach
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We aren’t here to make a great product or a great company, but rather to make our customers awesome at whatever they do with our products or services. –Kathy Sierra, Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Make People Awesome
http://modernagile.org
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1. Safety is a prerequisite for learning 2. Learning is a superpower 3. Wanting credit can get in the way 4. Finding a new identity as testers
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Phychological Safety unlocking performance
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Who is on a team matters less than how the team
members interact, structure their work, and view their
contributions. –Project Aristoteles, Google
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Safety is a prerequisite for
learning
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What defines me is both the best behaviors I
amplify and the worst behaviors I tolerate - adapted from Jurgen Appelo
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Learning is Superpower an industry of learning
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Every day when I come to work, my goal is to be better after the
day.
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The 5-Year Rule
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5.5 hrs of learning and 2.5 hrs of working puts you ahead after 1 year if the gain daily is 1%.
- Llewellyn Falco
http://lfal.co/LearningHourROI
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Experts are not the one ones who know the most but ones who learn the fastest
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Caring for Credit teamwork conditions
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It’s not that I’m so smart,
I just stay with the
problems longer.
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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/
“Mileva Marić Einstein was a physicist who contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.”
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Best ideas win when you care
about work over credit
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Why are there no baby dinosaurs?
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/why-no-baby-dinosaurs/1445773#Wi7HpGVpubUWDhBE.99
5/12 identified types of dinosaurs did not exist
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Four C’s of a Modern Tester making us awesome!
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A Job Description for me: 20 – 60 % of hands-on testing 20 – 60 % of helping others test Rest: do whatever you like that is beneficial for the company
Jukka Talvio Manager Extraordinaire Quality Director, HERE Consumer
2005
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Catalyst Conscience
Cheerleader Critical thinker
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Catalyst increasing rate of reaction
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Holding space
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It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is
to get permission. – Grace Hopper
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Changing myself and environment, not the
others
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Lending Privilege
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Conscience sense of right and wrong
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Being brave when others are not
with a survivorship bias warning
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Avoiding decision is a decision
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From gatekeeper to advisor
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Cheerleader power of the positive
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What ever anybody says or does, assume
positive intent. – Indra Nooyi
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Being Authentic
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Critical Thinker seeing things others don’t
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Product is my external imagination
I am my developer’s external imagination
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Pool is not a bigger bathtub
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Catalyst Conscience
Cheerleader Critical thinker
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Maaret Pyhäjärvi Email: [email protected] Twitter: @maaretp Web: maaretp.com Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi (please connect with me through Twitter or LinkedIn)