At the beginning of 2011, I posted about my goals for 2011
here. I was very eager to complete the year on a high and make this the best year. There was enough planning. As it often happens with me, I was able to successfully meet some of the goals. I started working towards some goals and I added few more *NEW* goals and pursued them.
Today, I look back at the months gone by and count the days to 2012. I am trying to assess my performance this year. I am happy to say that I have met the expectations even though I could have exceeded my own expectations in some other way.
To start with January, I started reading the books mentioned for January. I learnt a very important lesson from this experience. I could not finish a book in one go. I needed 2-3 months to fully absorb a book.
Though I felt that I was on track for most of the year, I achieved a lot more which was not present on the Goal Chart.
I participated in
http://www.99tests.com/ contests and was in top three in most of them. I added few more books to my collection.
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| Books in my reading list |
2011, I was thinking of not attending any of the conferences and I ended up presenting at THREE conferences!
First of them was at Chennai -
BugDeBug conference:
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| Resources to help a tester |
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| Summary Slide of my presentation |
Finally, my dream came true. I met the Bach Brothers and Matt Heusser in person. I met all my online heroes and friends in person. I was at CAST 2011. I presented at CAST 2011.
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| The Bach Brothers' Award |
Then I had the opportunity to present a webinar for EuroSTAR 2011 and the topic was
'The Joy of Weekend Testing Facilitation'
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| Weekend Testing Facilitation |
I wrote articles for Testing Planet and Testing Circus.
The latest was the mindmap to EuroSTAR 2011. As the Country Ambassador, I presented the following mindmap:
And finally, here I am - analyzing how the year has gone by so quickly.
Close to 100 days and I am focussed on just one book for now
THE CODE
Lets meet in 2012.
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