Think you're boosting your team or holding them back? This nice article reveals subtle signs of leaders who diminish vs multiply talent. In my view it's a must-read if you want to unlock real team potential 👇👇👇
https://blog.growthinstitute.com/the-edge/5-signs-leaders-diminishers-to-multipliers
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Great leaders don't always have the answers: they ask the best questions 🧐💡
As Jackie Colburn points out, curiosity fuels creativity, trust, and better decisions.
Ask more. Assume less. Lead with questions. 🤝✨
Misalignment in digital projects often hides behind surface-level agreement. Cultural norms like politeness, power imbalance, and rushed decision-making lead to fragile consensus. Real alignment takes trust, open challenge, and shared definitions before delivery, not after.
Just added security tests to my Juice Shop portfolio project 🚀 🚀 🚀
Now OWASP ZAP scans run automatically in ephemeral Kubernetes environments, alongside performance testing with Locust.
The full pipeline simulates a company workflow:
- merge into master ➡️ deploy to Hetzner K8s cluster
- security testing with ZAP
- performance testing with Locust
- automatic teardown of the environment after tests
Proud to use this as part of my portfolio project 🫡
Check it out 👇
🔗 https://gitlab.com/aurelienlair/juice-shop
I would make it through the book much sooner if I did not stop to think about what are things I want to quote. And my motivation for wanting to quote them.
So far 23 pages in, and I wonder: how would you teach testing if you don't know how to do it. Feels like that is still missing with so many testers.
Strategy often doesn’t fail in the planning phase but in the execution.
Reading this article made me realize even more how important it is to involve the team early, build shared ownership and define what happens next.
Great reminder for any manager:
👉 https://jackiecolburn.medium.com/how-to-make-strategic-planning-stick-3-tips-for-avoiding-common-pitfalls-38dde5cf994e
#Leadership #StrategicPlanning #ExecutionMatters #TeamAlignment
A nice article about the inclusion of automation testing into the definition of done to prevent bottlenecks
Automated testing prevents bottlenecks only when properly integrated into development. Including test automation in the Definition of Done ensures it isn’t deprioritized. Success requires bre…
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Selenium explained by our speaker Pallavi Sharma during our Continuous Testing Meetup event
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