Hell of a Tester

Decided to write down today the stuff I (remembered to have) had done today. And as paper doesn't store so well, thought to write it here as well.  So here in a semi random order: Reviewed code for a change now implemented that had planned couple of days earlier. Mainly to understand how it had been done, but dropped two comments still; one on a missing log event, and another one on the naming of a method. Also asked another team member explain me a thing I didn't totally understand (it was a lazy loading feature so now I know). Coffee Did some happy path testing for the change, looked good. Discussed through the status and next steps of a cool new feature started yesterday. It seemed devs where far with the implementation already and not that much was missing. Got pretty excited of the feature Identified and discussed a possible fix with a dev for a thing I had heard yesterday about from a customer. Replied back to customer Tested one new feature a bit and noticed ...

I reread some of my old blogs and was a bit sad not to be able to read anything from the past three years. So I thought I need to force myself to start writing more again. So here goes. Past almost three years I've been working on a really cool team, with a lot of freedom (and some responsibilities) to do a lot of different things. And  quite a lot has happened in our team inside the last three years. We have moved from one month sprints TO sort of a one piece flow based kanban with a weekly cadence  one big team TO (semi) self-organizing work groups. lot of solo work TO work in the mobbing style PM led Reviews TO team led show sessions unappreciated monolithic architecture TO appreciated monolith + bunch of other services architecture nebula TO AWS + many many more things TO other kind of things And I'm thinking of writing on all of these a bit. But also many things have happened in me.  First of all I have stopped clinging on the thought of ...