Heleen Van Grootven | Activities
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Today's This Week in Quality had the hosts with their cameras on for the very first time! ... And since I could see them, I was extremely convinced that they could see me as well. Cue lots of emoti...
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This Week in Quality
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"Excellent insight! The best way for me to retain anything has always been to write it out (preferably by hand). I can look back at my own notes from years ago and understand the structure, abbreviations, leaps of logic, ... , because it's always still ..."
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Why your own messy notes still beat a tidy AI summary
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Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Thanks for being the first editor on all my work 😉
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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Is empathy a nice extra, or the engine behind good quality work?
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Myth: The real work is technical, empathy is extra
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Myth: The real work is technical, empathy is extra
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Myth: The real work is technical, empathy is extra
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What happened to charters and templates that guide us?
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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This Week in Quality
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This Week in Quality
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Recently my team has taken on the arduous task of migrating one of our oldest applciations from weblogic to containers. A task that is proving more difficult then expected. With tickets stuck for s...
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Stop with cleaning code, first make it work!
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Stop with cleaning code, first make it work!
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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"I read this and immediately pitched it for our upcoming teambuilding!"
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Testing meets fun: How we accidentally created the best testing icebreaker using sticky notes and a whiteboard
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Testing meets fun: How we accidentally created the best testing icebreaker using sticky notes and a whiteboard
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Dynamically connect cross-functional team roles, build trust, lower stress and naturally reinforce software testing terminology.
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Testing meets fun: How we accidentally created the best testing icebreaker using sticky notes and a whiteboard
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Testing meets fun: How we accidentally created the best testing icebreaker using sticky notes and a whiteboard
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Quality narratives and the circles of consequence - Ep 121
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Quality moments and delicate developer dialogues - Ep 127
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SQEC ready. Pair ready. Glossary ready - Ep 130
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SQEC ready. Pair ready. Glossary ready - Ep 130
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SQEC ready. Pair ready. Glossary ready - Ep 130
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Don't like my messy desk? Don't look at it 🫣
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Don't like my messy desk? Don't look at it 🫣
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Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134
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Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134
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Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134
Heleen Van Grootven
Testing Engineer
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After a decade in communications, I switched to testing—turns out that I really like figuring out how things work and how they fit together. Always open to learning more and meeting new people!
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