The document discusses challenges in career progression and job roles within testing, advocating for a more flexible and holistic approach rather than traditional linear paths. It highlights issues with job titles, measurement, and the need for genuine discussions in personal development. There is an emphasis on personal learning, ownership, and the exploration of innovative career modeling in the context of a larger team and organization.

1. Ash Winter
Short stuff here:
@northern_tester
Long stuff here:

2. Bullseye!

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

4. Careers - weird & swirly…
Models are linear…

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

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

7. Friday afternooner…
• Core of
a tester
• Circles
not
lines
• Outer
segments
bigger
• Less job
titles

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

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

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

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

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

13. Also big positives…
• Security as a
specialty
• Tool Assisted
Testing CoP
• Front End
Performance
CoP
• Overlapping
versions for
other
disciplines…

14. Big team workshop…

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

16. Personal learning…
• Lots of me
• No topics
change
• More skills
than
behaviours
• Take
ownership
of career
tools…

17. Questions?