Ash WinterShort stuff here:@northern_tester

Long stuff here:testingisbelieving.

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Bullseye!

Problem…•Hire loads at once, lose loads at once.•“Pushing tickets”

Careers - weird & swirly…

Models are linear…

A new new model…• Whole career• Open many doors • Known unknowns • Questions not answers

Definitely not…•Complete•Comparative•Immutable•Only career model

Friday afternooner…• Core of a tester

• Circles not lines

• Outer segments bigger

• Less job titles

First contact…• Job titles• Shit taken literally• Tell me what it means!

Another go…• No job titles• Made it prettier• Moved stuff around a bit

Try again…• Painful defining of things• Genuine discussions• Lets try it in One to Ones…

Measuring madness…•Scored selves•Scored each other•Comparing

Straight lines…• Only working in one area• Trying to “fill in” segments

Also big positives…• Security as a specialty

• Tool Assisted Testing CoP

• Front End Performance CoP

• Overlapping versions for other disciplines…

Big team workshop…

Wider organisation…• Other managers got confused.• ”How do I measure people with this?”• HR got mad.• “This isn’t a competency framework!?!”

Personal learning…• Lots of me• No topics

change• More skills

than behaviours

• Take ownership of career tools…

Questions?