BOB

Intro

Read the blog post about the Brickceptional Opportunity Bulletin board to learn more.

Practice

• Test open source application and report result
• Arrange or attend something similar to STWC
• Practice coaching in another context than testing
• Experiment with new ways to visualize what I do
• Experiment with different was to coach and debrief
• Experiment with different ways to self-organize myself
• Pair up with a tester at my workplace
• Have a focus week (e.g. security, SBTM or agile)
• Build a testing tool

Confer

• Book lunch with local testers
• Transpection Tuesday retrospective with Helena
• PSL retrospective with Helena
• Attend a coaching, change management, management or developer conference
• Get to Estonia to have a face-to-face sitting with Helena
• Learn from others how they run debriefs
• Attend an Agila Linköping meetup
• Find other local meetups for competence areas relevant in my role but not being testing (e.g. toastmaster, agile, developer communities etc.)
• Become more active on TestSverige, Testers.io, Twitter and/or STC
• Speak at EAST or ConTest
• Book tester lunches in Linköping
• Invite interesting people to the dinners I have with Göran Bakken
• Co-arrange a conference at work
• Create a developer community at work
• Arrange the next SWET or local peer conference
• Arrange a peer conference in a different field than testing (programming/development, agile, change, coaching)
• Coach a new tester
• Book a lunch with local enthusiasts in roles and areas related to mine, e.g. agile coaches
• Catch up with old conference friends
• Meet Stefan Jansson

Write

• Write a blog post or article
• Write a blog post and make it fun to read (back to old style)

Read / watch

• Learn more about performance testing and continuous *
• Finish "Teaching from the back of the room"
• Listen to testing podcasts
• Book a conference room and work while watching a conference presentation with colleagues
• Find blogs in areas that are not testing but relevant to my role
• Watch conference presentations relevant to my role (not just testing)
• Get highly regarded, local and international, speakers to my workplace
• Start a book club at work
• Learn more about busniess models, company economy and management

Present

• Send an abstract to Testbash, NTD or other testing conference
• Send an abstract to a coaching, change management, management or developer conference
• Create a free testing course for beginners (Linköping, Malmö or Web)
• Present at nearby universities
• Create an upload an example driven, free, video course in testing
• Attend a Toastmaster meeting

Think

• Personal retrospective
• Practice explaining how we work with test