A page outlining what I’ve been up to in the development & testing community in order to better myself.
March 2019
- Co-organised & facilitated NWEWT #4 peer conference (based on LAWST, LEWT, DEWT & MEWT)
- Accepted to speak at Lean Agile Scotland 2019 with my proposal “Followership - sometimes leadership can go f*ck itself“
October 2018
- Invited to DEWT peer conference (invite only workshop limited to 20 attendees)
September 2018
- Presented my ideas on remaining effective in SAFe at Assurance Leadership Forum (slides)
- Presented my ideas on remaining effective in SAFe at Software Testing Conference North (slides)
April 2018
- Co-organised & facilitated NWEWT #3 peer conference (based on LAWST, LEWT, DEWT & MEWT)
March 2018
- Attended UK STAR conference
October 2017
- Attended TestBash Manchester conference
September 2017
- Attended Copenhagen Context Conference
- Attended Cynefin & Complexity Foundations
July 2017
- Achieved Leading SAFe 4.0 certification (Here’s the badge)
May 2017
October 2016
- Presented my “Testers! Be More Salmon!” ideas in a workshop at TestBash Manchester
September 2016
- Attended Don Reinertsen’s “Second Generation Lean Product Development: Applying the Principles of Flow” workhop
August 2016
- Selected for Copenhagen Context Conference Program Committee (blog)
June 2016
- Presented my “Testers! Be More Salmon!” ideas in a workshop at Agile North
May 2016
- Presented my “Testers! Be More Salmon!” ideas in a workshop at Agile Manchester
- Roving reporter for Let’s Test conference
April 2016
- Closing keynote of the BCS “Northern Lights” conference (write up can be found here)
- Co-organised & facilitated NWEWT 1 peer conference (based on LAWST, LEWT, DEWT & MEWT)
- Presented my “Testers! Be More Salmon!” ideas in a talk for Lean Agile Warrington meetup
February 2016
- Presented my ideas around Exploratory Testing in a talk for Liverpool chapter of the North West Tester Gathering meetup
November 2015
- Luxury of attending Agile Testing Days conference as a delegate
October 2015
- Attending MEWT 4 peer conference to discuss all things models & modelling
August 2015
- Attend TITAN Peer conference(invite only, 20 attendees) to discuss leadership in testing
June 2015
- Presenting ideas on communication & collaboration including my ICEBERG model & Satir’s Interaction Model at the Agile North conference (10th anniversary)
May 2015
- Running a session on Cynefin at the Lets Test conference. I also have the honour of being the roving reporter again
- Successfully completed BBST Bug Advocacy course (month long, study at home)
April 2015
- Attended MEWT 3 peer conference (invite only, 12 attendees) to discuss all things communication
March 2015
- “The Power of Language: Effective Communication at Any Level” article published in StickyMinds
January 2015
- Attended Rapid Software Testing run by Michael Bolton
- Attended Black Ops Workshop. My write up can be found in my blog
- Co-authored “Why do you need to test software?” article for the BBC Academy
November 2014
- Spoke about Virgina Satir’s Interaction Model at the BBC Develop Conference 2014. Slides
August 2014
- “The ICEBERG in Testing” article published in Testing Circus magazine
- “TDD For Testers” article published in Testing Planet magazine
May 2014
- Attended Johanna Rothman & Gil Broza’s course “Influential Agile Leader“
- Attended Lets Test 2014 as their Roving Reporter
April 2014
- Attended a Ruby & Cucumber 3 day workshop (internal course arranged by BBC, run by Chris Parsons)
February 2014
- Attended & spoke at Dewt 4 - report on my experiences teaching testing to new/non testers “You can’t to learn to drive by reading a book”
January 2014
- 1st Gibraltar Tester Gathering - organised & presented with Gav Winter
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December 2013
- Created a Special Interest Group for implementing Continuous Integration in current organisation
November 2013
- Reviewer for the Testing & Quality Assurance track of the Agile 2014 conference (from Agile Alliance)
October 2013
- Invited to DEWT peer conference (invite only workshop limited to 20 attendees)
August 2013
- Invited to be a founding member of the International Society for Software Testing (ISST)
- Invited to be a Mentor for graduates of the Per Scholas Software Testing Education Program (STEP)
May 2013
- Let’s Test Session - I learned some valuable lessons. Read about them here.
- Let’s Test Roving Reporter - I chat to people doing exciting things in the testing domain. Listen to the chats here.
October 2012
- Having my proposal accepted for Let’s Test 2013! The program looks fantastic - you can download it from here.
August 2012
- Problem Solving Leadership course (Weinberg, Rothman & Derby)
July 2012
- My article was published in The Testing Planet (from Software Testing Club)
May 2012
- North West Tester Gathering Liverpool
- Attendee Lets Test Conference - Stockholm
April 2012
- BBST Foundations which I passed!
- Exploratory Testing Workshop with Michael Bolton (AppSense)
March 2012
- North West Tester Gathering Liverpool - Agile testing & Lego Scrum game
Feburary 2012
- Accepted into Miagi-Do School of testing
- Skype coaching with Anne-Marie Charret
- Collaborating with David Greenlees on a Miagi-Do challenge
January 2012
- Skype chat/coaching with James Bach
October 2011
July 2011
- Rapid Software Testing with Michael Bolton
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