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Ministry of Testing Dojo Membership – #PayItForward

May 6, 2019 by Hilary

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how fortunate I am, and I’ve been looking for ways to pay back the community for what it has given me. I was inspired by Kristine Corbus to do a #PayItForward with a Pro Ministry of Testing Dojo Membership, so here it is! Also inspired by Kristine, if you …

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Looking back on 2018, looking forward to 2019

January 2, 2019 by Hilary

It’s hard for me to think about 2018 with fondness. It went to shit before the halfway mark, and it’s really hard to think about any positives. But I know a lot of good stuff happened, I just need to take an actual look back rather than getting stuck in the bad shit (which is …

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A Lesson From My Testing Journey

March 17, 2018 by Hilary

On February 20th, I shared my career journey for the first time to a large audience. I gave a Ministry of Testing Masterclass called “Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Career Experience Report” (a recording is available for Pro Dojo members here: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/not-all-who-wander-are-lost-a-career-experience-report-with-hilary-weaver-robb). I’ve had kind of a wonky career path, and have at times …

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2017 Recap & Looking Forward to 2018

January 4, 2018 by Hilary

2017 was eventful, to say the least. I submitted 8 talks to 6 conferences. I was accepted to 5 of those conferences, gave an extra talk at one of them I wasn’t planning on, and was invited to speak at another with a brand new talk. I spoke on life lessons at KalamazooX, making your …

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Suggested (to me) Books on Leadership

January 16, 2016 by Hilary

I recently tweeted for suggestions on books about self leadership, and leadership in general – especially books that personally helped people. I wasn’t looking for “I heard this book is great” but rather “this book helped me to become a better leader” etc. I’m compiling the list here because I got a variety of suggestions …

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So much failure. So many lessons to learn.

January 4, 2015 by Hilary

As my CEO has said, it’s ok to fail as long as you learn from it. So I’m analyzing this gigantic failure to try to get as much knowledge from it as possible. I don’t want to fail this hard again… Let me start from the beginning of this wonderful lesson. I was asked to …

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Same place, new adventures

December 11, 2014 by Hilary

Note: I’m not going to address the “QA” terminology thing here – we call our software testers “QA” where I work, but this isn’t about that. Sorry – we can talk about it later 😀 On Tuesday, I started my first day in my new position as an “SQA Architect” at Quicken Loans – moving …

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Why user groups and networking are important

June 28, 2014 by Hilary

Starting a user group is probably the biggest challenge I’ve taken upon myself in a long time. Getting sponsorship and paying for it, finding a place to have it and an amazing speaker – that’s been the easy part. The hard part is creating that community. Getting people to understand that a few hours after …

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2013 Year in Review

December 27, 2013 by Hilary

Last year I wrote up a post with my 2013 goals and resolutions. I wanted to review what I had actually done, so here we are! Achieve a better work/life balance. This will be the most difficult of all of my goals… With my new job, I think I’ve gotten this a bit more under …

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On to new adventures

June 23, 2013 by Hilary

So I’m stuck at a Starbucks using their wifi, because of a power outage at my place. So why not post on the ol’ neglected blog? I left my previous job back in March, and just last week revealed where I’ve been working now. I didn’t say where earlier, because my previous boss has some …

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