Stage 1: Slept in. Then, despaired. The first days were great! It was like finishing university again. I slept in, updated my CV, read all the things I had wanted to read for some time.. I was sure there was going to be a gig for me in a very near future. But after the first days of sleeping in, I started getting restless.
I’ve made a series of test stories from my favorite test runs. During this test run I tested a company’s customer service, as well as their mobile website, from the conception that both parts of the product should be usable anywhere at anytime.
Last week I went to ConTest in Malmö (Hosted by FooCafe) to talk about usability testing. ConTest is a free meetup for testers, and I was there to talk about usability testing. We
I’ve made a series of test stories from my favorite test runs. This 2-days user experience test run is without a doubt the most extensive test I ever did in the smallest amount of time. These were not average 8-hour workdays, these were meticulously planned sessions that fit into my timetable with great precision and lasted from morning to evening.
I’m busy right now. Very busy. But I miss going to conferences. I miss getting some new ideas and insights into areas of IT and testing that I’m new to.
Though people have tried, none have so far reached a definite conclusion as to what play actually is. If you want to read more I recommend the following books
The playful aspect is by far the most arbitrary. The word in itself is a bit silly. “The playful aspect of play”. The playful aspect seems either obvious or superfluous. But since we’ve gone through the physical and social aspects, this last post addresses the parts of play that are harder to fit into the aforementioned “boxes”. Between the physical and the social parts of playing, something else takes place as well…
This post would’ve been a cool diy-scandinavian-design-inspired-shabby-chick thing on Pinterest. It’s not. This post is mostly just me telling that last week I went to Agile42s course on becoming a SCRUM master. It was a good course and I learned a lot. My current project work close-to-agile, so I already have a good amount of practical knowledge about working agile, but it was good to get some theory as well.
