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Continuous Learning – What I did in the last Month (May 2020)


Dear Technologists, hope you all are doing well.

In addition to regular office work; here is the quick summary of my learning engagements for the last month.

Conference – Spring OnlineTestConf 2020
Attended Spring OnlineTestConf 2020. This was my 6th edition in a row. This time it was a three day event. As usual, it had a variety of talks and was very well organized conference.


Careers in Test Leadership: Coaching Testing and Testers: Experiences, Techniques, and Advice
This video is available on Test Masters Academy’s YouTube channel. In this video, you can find answers to below questions.  
- What is Coaching?
- What are the Coaching Techniques?
- How do you coach Testing?
- When you coach, when do you know when to start and when to finish?
- What are the better ways of Coaching OR How can we learn to do our coaching better?

If interested; check out the video here.

Principles to Guide Testing: Modern and Agile
This video is available on SoftwareTestPro’s YouTube channel. In this Video, Lisa Crispin has covered below items.
- 10 Principles for Agile Testers and Modern Testing Principles
- How these principles relate to each other
- How these principles can help in building Quality


If interested; check out the video here.

Top 5 Mistakes of a New Manager
This video is available on Clavent’s YouTube channel. In this Video, Ajay Balamurugadas has covered below items.
- Things a Manager does or supposed to do
- Top 5 mistakes of a new Manager
- Solutions to each of these mistakes

If you are a Team member and want to become a Manager or already working as a Manager; in my opinion you should watch this video.
If interested; check out the video here.

Test Automation in DevOps
This course is available on the Test Automation University and encompasses below areas.
- Introduction to DevOps
- What’s in your Pipeline?
- Test Automation Strategy for DevOps
- Infrastructure considerations
- Learning in Production
- Getting your whole Team engaged

This course will introduce you to DevOps, enable you to learn the possibilities and benefits of Test Automation in DevOps.
If interested, check out the course here by Lisa Crispin

Podcast - Michael Bolton on the Testing Mindset
This is one of the best podcast on Software Testing. I will refrain from writing what it comprised of. If you are a Software Tester or someone who want to understand the inherent meaning of Software Testing; I reckon you should listen to this podcast.
If interested; do listen to the podcast here.

Design Thinking: Understanding the Process
This course is available on LinkedIn Learning and encompasses below areas.
- Agile, lean, and design thinking
- Preparing to sell design thinking to your organization
- Finding the real problem
- Ideation
- Prototyping
- Correcting course
- Offshoring and outsourcing
- Getting past organizational inertia and silos
- Tracking your success


This beginner level course is mainly focused on the business justification and strategic considerations for using design thinking techniques in an organization.
If interested, check out the course here by Chris Nodder

Python Quick Start
This course is available on LinkedIn Learning and encompasses below areas.
- What is Python?
- Strengths and benefits of Python
- Types of data
- Storing data using variables
- Built-in and custom functions
- Lists and tuples
- Conditional statements
- Iteration with loops
- Recursive functions
- Object-oriented programming

I reckon; if you are a beginner in programming; then this course will be helpful. However; don’t just watch the video, try doing some hands-on as well.
If interested, check out the course here by Lavanya Vijayan

Workshop – Learn the 4 Step Method of Public Speaking
No matter which industry we are in; public speaking is an essential skill. This is a learnable skill and this workshop is designed with essential 4 step method of public speaking.
Personally, I liked this workshop. If you are also interested; then you can find out more details about this workshop (by Praveen Wadalkar) here.   

In addition, added new bugs to the Be a User first; then a Tester playlist. Check out the below Bugs which I have found while USING the LinkedIn’s Android App.

 


That’s all from my side.

What courses you have taken or areas that you are focusing on?

Have you attended any Online Software Testing event (Meetup, Conference, Webinar etc.)? Comment below with your thoughts, experiences, and recommendations, etc.


In this month, I will be attending Tricentis UserConference 2020 and Tribal Qonf 2020

Keep learning, keep sharing, and yes, stay safe. 😇