{"id":75,"date":"2010-01-18T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-01-18T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:09:05","slug":"my-last-fifteen-years-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/my-last-fifteen-years-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"My last fifteen years (part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(part 1 is here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(part 2 is here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(part 3 is here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(part 4 is here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in the Engineering Excellence (EE) team at Microsoft for nearly five years now, and the time has flown by. The job is completely different from a typical test role, yet almost all I talk about is testing. I\u2019ve used my time in this group to continue to learn about testing, but to this day, I still miss the ebb and flow of adrenaline that comes from working on a shipping product.<\/p>\n

The first big project assigned to me in EE was to design a course for our senior testers. I had no idea what I was doing, but I after talking to dozens of people around the company and receiving some critical help from some of my new peers, I ended up with a course that has been well received for going on five years now, and is relatively unchanged from the original. This work led to a ton of research over the last five years on growth paths for testers (one output of that research is in my pnsqc paper from 2009<\/a>). I think of the work I\u2019ve done in EE, this work on growth and career paths for testers is what I\u2019m most proud of.<\/p>\n

About a year and a half after joining EE, my manager<\/a> left to join another team at Microsoft. Less than another year later my \u201cnew\u201d manager left and I, for some reason, decided to step into the director role on the EE team. I\u2019ve never been completely comfortable in a manager role, but after some long talks with my peers (soon to be employees) about the move, I decided to give it a shot. The core of my work didn\u2019t change much, but I did spend more time on \u201coverhead\u201d\u00a0 – budgets, scheduling, etc. I\u2019ve had a chance to learn a lot in this role, and a chance to work with test leaders all across the company.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also used my time in EE to study. I\u2019ve probably read a hundred books about testing, management, and leadership; taught dozens of classes and given more internal talks than I can count. I\u2019ve spoken externally as much as I can handle, and wrote more about testing<\/a> than I ever imagined I could. All in all, I have a lot to be proud of about the last few years of my career.<\/p>\n

What will the future bring for me?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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