Personal Development Is Your Team Dysfunctional? Spoiler alert! This blog post is a book review - "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni and contains references to the contents of the book. This book was recommended to me by my husband, as we spent hours in the last few months talking about effective teams,
Personal Development It Is Perfectly Fine To Say "No" Sometimes we feel the pressure of doing a lot of things and investing our time in different activities and by the end of the day, we feel exhausted from running and trying to accomplish all these requests. And then we end up complaining how tired we are, being sorry that
Personal Development Setting Professional Objectives Made Easy Professional growth. We're all seeking professional growth and that's because we're all looking to be better than yesterday, smarter than last year and we need to fit that image that we've created in our heads about the future us. Which is fine. But how about the moment when we get
Personal Development 3 Types of People I Admire the Most Since we are kids we are encouraged to find a model to follow, someone to inspire us or someone to simply admire. I'm pretty sure most of you were encouraged at least once to pick a rock star, a sports champion, a singer, a president, an actor or actress or
Software Testing Crafting Your Career in Software Testing Let's admit it, a teenager finishing high-school and starting college is unlikely to tell you he's/she's dreaming to become a software tester. When I was in college (more than 10 years ago) I barely heard about software testing and when I did, it was because of one course that
Personal Development My 2018 In Pictures January 2018 started with me changing my job. Hooray! On my first day in the new office, I got a cake to share it my new workmates. Was pretty nice spending my first hour socialising. February I have had some great memories made in February while attending a photography course.
Personal Development Setting New Year Resolutions?đ No Thanks! đDisclaimer: The story below was written by me exactly one year ago, when 2018 was about to start. Today I revisited it and I'm amazed how much it matches my current state, when 2019 is about to start. Let me tell you a little story about me. Whenever a year
Personal Development How Are Software Development Teams Similar To Football Teams? I used to be a football fan in my adolescence and young adulthood and I was rarely missing the important derbies on TV. I knew by that time all the big teams from Premier League, Serie A or Primera Division and all the famous players. The crush was so real,
Personal Development Why I Transitioned From Medium To My Own Blog When I first thought I would like to write things learned from my experience as software tester I did not have any kind of a plan. "Should I buy a domain? How should I name it? How am I going to manage all the stuff a blog requires? Do I
Software Testing 14 Most Common Mistakes A Tester Makes Did you do any mistake recently? I did. But weâre all humans, right? And weâre all likely to make mistakes. Usually people associate making mistakes with punishment which in most of the cases is the immediate action after a mistake is made. And seeing the good part in
Personal Development 3 Lessons I Have Learned From My Project Manager For a while, my relationship with the project managers I was working with was like the relationship we used to have with teachers. Even you know they are meant to teach you good things, to guide you, to offer support when need it, you prefer to believe their role is
Personal Development âAdd Positivity Into Your Testingâ There is something that keeps hunting me in the last couple of days and I was trying to give it more and more sense. It is a sentence that Richard Bradshaw put together at Romania Testing Conference this year: Add positivity into your testing. When I heard it, I was
Personal Development 3 Things Your Manager Should Know About You As Tester Letâs face it, not everyone knows or cares what a tester is doing every day and how is she/he doing the testing. The most common opinion that I have heard is that testers are doing quite a boring job, clicking around and trying to find defects or to
Personal Development The Road From Senior Tester to Mature Tester Donât know about you, but when I was at the beginning of my career (as a software tester), every time I got the question from recruiters âWhere do you see yourself in 5 years?â, I could hardly find a proper answer to that. Because itâs hard to predict.
Personal Development How To Take Responsibility Of Your Professional Growth Growth. Everyone talks about it, right? But it is almost impossible to find a recipe to follow and after that to declare: Ok, I am good enough. I can stop now. In most of the cases, the beautiful things in life are not coming just following some recipes. They do
Personal Development 5 Things To Remember When Youâre Feeling Stuck Have you asked yourself recently what is happiness? Or are you happy? Do you even know what makes you happy? We are living great times, when everything we need is one click away (in most of the cases), but even so, many people donât know what to answer when