Archive for 'insight'
Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, “the gift of the gab” eludes me, often leaving me tongue tied and twisted when selling my wares.
Its one of the reasons I have got myself a business mentor. His main focus has been for me to understand my ‘product’ and [...]
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Four Stages of Testing Competence
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
I have Chris Ashton to thank for this little piece of inspiration. He refers to levels of competence in a recent post of his. I was intrigued by the reference and went off to check out what the levels of competence are all about.
The “conscious competence” is a model that describes how we progress through [...]
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All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey..
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
It was my birthday recently, and I got a brand new Digital SLR as a present. Now my expertise on photography goes as far as knowing that DSLR stands for Digital SLR. Say no more. Having this camera though, now means I can’t blame bad photos on the equipment.
In Ireland at the moment, its the [...]
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Some days Scarlett, I just don’t give a damn…
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
It doesn’t happen all the time, but some days its just hard to be motivated and inspired. Today is one of those days.
Perhaps its because its a grey day, or that yesterday in Ireland was a public holiday and its hard to get motivated after a break, but today it’s hard to get the [...]
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Rediscover your inner tester
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
Linda Wilkinson in a recent post called on ‘Experts’ to come down off their ivory towers, and get back in touch with the rest of the ‘hoi polloi’.
It got me thinking about how in one way or another, we all have an Ivory Tower in testing which we can brag about. Your Ivory Tower (if [...]
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Shane MacLaughlin: The analogy to survey becomes even more interestin...
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Anne-Marie Charrett: Thanks James, thats an interesting insight into th...
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Simon Morley: I've been doing a lot of talking with our PTB rece...
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James Christie: I think I've the opposite problem. On any particul...
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James Christie: I'm not really comfortable with the idea of testin...
