BT11 Concurrent Session 6/14/2012 4:00 PM "Creating a Professional Credo: Aligning Career, Goals, and Personal Happiness" Presented by: Marlena Compton Mozilla Brought to you by: 340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888 ‐ 268 ‐ 8770 ∙ 904 ‐ 278 ‐ 0524 ∙ sqeinfo@sqe.com ∙ www.sqe.com
Marlena Compton Mozilla Marlena Compton is an open source disruptor and Software Engineer in Test for Mozilla, one of the world’s largest open source projects. Currently, she contributes to the writing of automated checks for addons.mozilla.org and delights in assisting others to get started with their own open source contributions. Whether she is testing or writing code, Marlena enjoys taking a pragmatic, real-world approach to software and advocates for placing a primary testing emphasis on exploratory testing done by a whole team. Marlena previously worked as a tester for Atlassian Software Systems in Sydney, Australia. A frequent presenter at conferences, Marlena blogs at marlenacompton.com.
Creating a Professional Credo: g Aligning Career, Goals, and Personal Happiness Marlena Compton Marlena Compton mcompton@mozilla.com Marlena Compton Software Tester Blogger @marlenac Marlenacompton.com mcompton@mozilla.com
What is a credo? What will it get me?
The role of circular thinking The Circular Path of Building The Circular Path of Building a Software Credo Desert Botanical Garden Spiral ‐ sequelguy
Li Linear Steps St of Building a Credo Creating a digital autobiography
Remembering your mentors Writing a parable
Remembering your “religious” software experiences Defining the ultimate nerd
Listing your ultimate software nerds and why they make the list Pulling out bits and bytes from Software History
Examining manifestos and mission statements Conducting the “So What?” Test
Wrapping it up with your credo and SHARING!!!
@marlenac Happy Trails by Lady_K
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