Category: Mentoring
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My Testing Manifesto
Introduction I read. I read an awful lot. I read books, I read other blogs (most of which seem better than my attempts). I read articles on the agile space. I read developer articles. I read articles on test automation. I read a lot of articles on testing. I read twitter vignettes. Each thing I…
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Mentoring & Coaching – Finding your outer Miyagi
Introduction In Part1 here I talked about mentoring. I talked about the fact that it is a function primarily based on building lasting relationships. In this post I’ll talk about quality coaching. What I think good looks like, the structure of a coaching session and round it off with a look at the differences and…
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Mentoring & Coaching – Finding your inner Miyagi
Introduction The line between mentor and coach has always seemed a bit blurry to me.You will mentor because you have life experience that you can pay forward.I would class this as life-coaching without the extraneous ‘right-on’ baggage.It may not actually matter to you that there’s a difference. Truth-be-told, it’s never bothered me but it’s been…