STARCANADA 2016 - Women Who Test Session
Friday, October 28
#NoExcuses
Many of us have things we’d like to do in life, but somehow we never quite get around to doing many of them. Often there are too many other things we must do before we can get to the things we want to do. Life, family obligations, we don’t have the right tools, financial reasons, there are numerous reasons that hold us back... In this talk, Jaimee will share some tips and tricks through stories about how she learned to identify her obstacles, get inspired, work through burnout, design the life she wanted and continue knocking out all the things on her life list....
The 2016 Survival Guide for (Female) Testers
When we are in dangerous situations, we need a well-thought-out survival guide to help save ourselves and others. These lifesaving principles and skills provide the basic necessities for life and help us think straight, navigate safely, signal for help, and avoid unpleasant consequences of interactions with our environment.
Julie's shares her 2016 Survival Guide for testers and test managers living in today’s challenging business and technical environments.
Topics in her guide include: Turn your job from a daily grind into a passion―life’s too short...
The Power of Collective Experience
Bring your biggest challenges to this session and tap the wisdom of others. In this immersive session, you will tackle some of the most widely mentioned challenges brought to light from the group. Whether it’s a software testing conundrum, a project setback, a management blocker, a group or team dysfunction or an interpersonal hurdle, all of these can slow our progress and reduce our effectiveness. And when we hunt for options, we all have blind spots and biases that prevent us from thinking out of the box and finding new and different solutions. Typically the...
Panel–Career Superpowers
Let’s discuss and define the most important career superpowers for women. Hear what industry professionals, leaders, and idea disruptors think the important career superpowers are for women in 2016 and going forward.
Panel: Melissa Benua, Senior Backend Software Engineer at PlayFab, Inc. and more.