tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672807322454419912.post7473121736501989145..comments2016-12-21T08:46:51.322-08:00Comments on The Testing Nerdette: Building a Tester Community of PracticeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12246463275833595855noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672807322454419912.post-50390863475350514902016-12-21T08:46:51.322-08:002016-12-21T08:46:51.322-08:00Hi,
I've been helping with a CoP for testing w...Hi,<br />I've been helping with a CoP for testing where I work, and can understand much of the pain you are going through.<br /><br />We have 1 hour set aside every 2 weeks, where the organizer spent the first three sessions establishing the expectations and rules, such as no such thing as a stupid question, no phones, be honest, and so forth.<br />After that I began assisting in facilitating and then presenting our sessions, bringing our "core" membership to 2.<br />We started on a high, and generally get about 50% of our testing team attending, although the majority are our in-sourced staff from India, whilst the permanent staff don't seem as keen on their own development.<br /><br />We use Confluence for our internal discussions, and have been asking the community to propose ideas. One thing that went well (though has been hard to maintain momentum on) was when we created working groups of what people either want to learn, or know well enough to teach others.<br />We got the room to start naming business areas, methodologies, technologies and anything else they could think of. Then everyone put their name on a PostIt and put their name against it.<br />Something like that might help with deciding future topics as well as the champions. If you have a bunch of people who want to learn to use Java and Selenium, they are all aware of each other and can start making it happen.<br /><br />Nice to hear of a testing CoP going well :)<br /><br />P.S Already seen Rogue One, and enjoyed seeing more of the Empire as they are what I enjoy the most in Star Wars ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18252663016715844624noreply@blogger.com