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BT11

Concurrent Session 6/14/2012 4:00 PM

"Creating a Professional Credo: Aligning Career, Goals, and Personal Happiness"

Presented by: Marlena Compton Mozilla

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Marlena Compton Mozilla Marlena Compton is an open source disruptor and Software Engineer in Test for Mozilla, one of the world’s largest open source projects. Currently, she contributes to the writing of automated checks for addons.mozilla.org and delights in assisting others to get started with their own open source contributions. Whether she is testing or writing code, Marlena enjoys taking a pragmatic, real-world approach to software and advocates for placing a primary testing emphasis on exploratory testing done by a whole team. Marlena previously worked as a tester for Atlassian Software Systems in Sydney, Australia. A frequent presenter at conferences, Marlena blogs at marlenacompton.com.

Creating a Professional Credo: g Aligning Career, Goals, and Personal Happiness

Marlena Compton Marlena Compton

mcompton@mozilla.com

Marlena Compton

Software Tester Blogger @marlenac Marlenacompton.com mcompton@mozilla.com

What is a credo? What will it get me?

The role of circular thinking The Circular Path of Building The Circular Path of Building a Software Credo

Desert Botanical Garden Spiral ‐ sequelguy

Li St Linear Steps

• f Building a Credo

Creating a digital autobiography

Remembering your mentors

Writing a parable

Remembering your “religious” software experiences

Defining the ultimate nerd

Listing your ultimate software nerds and why they make the list Pulling out bits and bytes from Software History

Examining manifestos and mission statements Conducting the “So What?” Test

Wrapping it up with your credo

and SHARING!!!

@marlenac

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