SEETest: Making Teams Awesome
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This document contains snippets from Maaret Pyhäjärvi's website about testing and quality assurance. It discusses topics like making customers and teams awesome, the importance of learning, taking risks, and viewing one's role as a catalyst for change, conscience for quality, cheerleader for others, and critical thinker. It emphasizes focusing on generativity over just productivity and caring about work over personal credit. The document promotes concepts like thinking systemically, having a growth mindset, and assuming positive intent from others.
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SEETest: Making Teams Awesome
- 1. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Making Teams Awesome by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- 2. @maaretp http://maaretp.com 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 JukkaTalvio Manager Extraordinaire Quality Director, HERE Consumer 2005
- 3. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Just a tester * but no one is just anything
- 4. @maaretp http://maaretp.com 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
- 6. @maaretp http://maaretp.com An industry of learning
- 9. @maaretp http://maaretp.com 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
- 10. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Every day when I come to work, my goal is to be better after the day.
- 12. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Catalyst increasing rate of reaction
- 15. @maaretp http://maaretp.com It’s not that I’m so smart, I just stay with the problems longer.
- 16. @maaretp http://maaretp.com 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.”
- 18. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Best ideas win when you care about work over credit
- 20. @maaretp http://maaretp.com thinking in systems growth mindset holding space
- 21. @maaretp http://maaretp.com It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper
- 23. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Conscience sense of right and wrong
- 25. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions. –Project Aristoteles, Google
- 26. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Safety is a prerequisite for learning
- 27. @maaretp http://maaretp.com People aren’t afraid of failure, they’re afraid of blame. –Seth Godin
- 28. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Being brave when others are not with a survivorship bias warning
- 29. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Avoiding decision is a decision
- 31. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Cheerleader power of the positive
- 33. @maaretp http://maaretp.com What ever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. – Indra Nooyi
- 34. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Nature of trust and liking
- 36. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Critical Thinker seeing things others don’t
- 37. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Testers don’t break the code, they break your illusions about the code. - Adapted from James Bach
- 38. @maaretp http://maaretp.com "All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, on the same computer." -- Woody Zuill
- 40. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Maaret Pyhäjärvi Email: maaret@iki.fi Twitter: @maaretp Web: maaretp.com Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi (please connect with me through Twitter or LinkedIn)