5 Steps to Grow Personal and Professional [INFOGRAPHIC]
Building professional profiles is an easy task but when it comes to personal and professional development we have an issue with the path to follow.
Some might wonder why personal and professional development? An appropriate work-life balance is the key to a happier life!
This cute infographic presents the 5 steps to personal and professional development.
Passionate or just a workaholic technical writer?
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I was in the tram heading to work the other day reading the book Manuscript found in Accra written by Paulo Coelho. There was an interesting chapter talking about two types of work; first type is the work done to gain existence when people work just to worth money for food, and another type of work when although they work to gain money, people work with passion, dedicating themselves to achieve something.
While reading the lines I remembered that over the time, some colleagues told me I’m a workaholic. Am I?
When talking about work I have identified the following types of people:
Software test case template
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What is a software test case?
A software test case is a list of conditions and specific steps which allow the quality assurance engineer / tester to determine whether the software is working properly or not. Software test cases are written based on software use cases which are usually written by programmers.
Sets of test cases, as known as test suites, allow testers to test various software functionalities. Break down functionalities into modules and create a test suite per module.
In order to completely test a software, you need to create a test specification which comprises various test suites.
Starting a business tips
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I have noticed during the past few years that there are many people who have a business idea. What happens? The scenarios are so varied that it would be impossible to mention them all. In the initial phase, people are so enthusiastic that they are not aware of important steps to follow and sometimes they reach the point to say “I was such a dreamer” and they fail. If you have a business idea, you should follow some basic rules for starting up a business.
1. Brainstorming with friends who have a feeling for businesses
You have a business idea but you’re not sure yet how you can be successful. If you have friends who already own a business, ask for their advice. What if he is going to steal my idea? If your friend is a person you can trust, he won’t do it. Your friends might give you some valuable input on the business idea you have and you might choose another road to success.
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How does your projects’ closing phase usually look like?
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Well, you might be conducting lessons learned session. Or you may not. You are probably archiving and documenting everything.
You may be throwing a party (ok, there is a high chance for project team to join, but only if you had at least some type of team gatherings throughout the project). I highly recommend you to.
But the important question is: what happens to the team after the project ends?
Software Testing Templates
During the testing phase, quality engineers (that is, testers) should create a collection of documents that encompass the testing strategy, the test cases, acceptance criteria and matching tests to requirements:
- System Test Specification – A system test specification (also called STS) is a document which describes the test approach and the test cases used to test a system or product.
Risk Assessment Template
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This risk assessment template serves as a risk register for your projects. The risk assessment template provides a complete set of questions that help you identify the risks of your project, while this document template risk assessment template allows you to categorize the risks, prioritize and determine risk response actions and the persons in charge of dealing with the risk response actions.
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Risk Analysis Template
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This risk analysis checklist template provides a complete set of questions that help you identify the risks of your project.
This risk analysis template is structured so that you have a clear view on the risks that might occur during the project phase, within the development environment and some general conditions.
The risk analysis checklist template allow you identifying risks during the following project phases: requirements, design, implementation, integration as well as some special cases like: maintenance, reliability, security and handling.