That time of the year when you do reflections is at hand. It's not the end of year yet, even if that is close. But a few relevant events in cadence of reflections culminated yesterday and today, leading me to writing for a seasoned tester's crystal ball.
The three relevant events are all worth a small celebration:
- Yesterday was first day after trial period at CGI as Director specializing in testing services and AI in application testing. We are both still very happy with each other. I should say it more clearly - I love the work CGI built for me, and I love that I get to bring in more people to do that work with me also next year. CGI's value-based positioning as an organization that supports volunteering and great community of testing professionals (testers, developers, product owners and managers/directors throughout the organization showing up for testing) has been a treat.
- Today the TiVi ICT 100 Most Influential list was published just for Finnish Independence Day, and I found my name on the list for 6th year in a row. You can imagine there are more than 100 brilliant professionals influencing in the ICT in Finland, and Finland has had a good reputation of educated ICT professionals with internationally competitive prices meaning that for a small country, we have a lot of brilliant people in ICT. Representing testing on this list even with title 'Director', is a recognition for all the great people teaching each other continuously in the community. Testing belongs.
- Today we received positive news of one frame agreement bid I had been contributing to in my 6 months at CGI. Building a series of successes in continuing as a partner of choice with me around brings me joy.
- Impact at Scale. I believe we need to find ways of moving many of our projects to better places for quality and productivity. Many organizations share similar problems and there has to be ways of creating common improvement roadmaps, stepping plans to get through the changes, and seeing software development (including testing) with increased successes. Scale means across organizations, but also over time when people change.
- Software of Relevance. I wanted to work on software that I feel connection with. I have been awarded multiple customers with purposes of relevance and feel grateful for the opportunities.
- Hosted models. Setting up possibility to have models on your own servers (ahem, personal computers too) so that I can let go of modeling what my data tell about me or reveals from my work.
- Open source progress. Be it Hercules for agents turning Gherkin to test results, or any of the many libraries in the Selenium ecosystem showing proofs of concepts on what integrations are like, those are invaluable.
- Customer Zero access. Having CGI be a product company allows us to apply things. Combine the motivation and means, and I have learned a lot. And yes, CGI has a lot of products. Including CGI NAVI, which is software development artifact generation product.