Heleen Van Grootven | Activities
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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
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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
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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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Don't like my messy desk? Don't look at it 🫣
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This Week in Quality
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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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"I'm glad me and my sticky notes were of help to you! It used to bother me, but I've learned that having a clean desk and a functional work environment are mutually exclusive for me, so I've gone all in on the functional work environment (and life envir..."
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Don't like my messy desk? Don't look at it 🫣
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Spent some time listening to the Call for Insights with Simon Tomes and Heleen Van Grootven. She talked about "Finding joy in your role" and how embracing her ADHD made her job more enjoyable. I ga...
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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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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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Spent some time listening to the Call for Insights with Simon Tomes and Heleen Van Grootven. She talked about "Finding joy in your role" and how embracing her ADHD made her job more enjoyable. I ga...
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Finding joy in your role
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When you have done a job for a while you start taking some of the habits from work into your personal life. In Belgium we lovingly refer to this as 'beroepsmisvorming', which I believe translates t...
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The occupational hazard of being a tester
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The occupational hazard of being a tester
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This Week in Quality
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One of the big things about ADHD is time blindness.
Heleen Van Grootven explains how time blindness impacts her approach to working. This is a snippet from her excellent Call for Insights: Finding ...
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What is time blindness?
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What is time blindness?
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What is time blindness?
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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