M -ve

Have you ever heard of people having “M” as their blood group? You are right ->MANAGERS….

I hope, you can catch, what is M+ve and M-ve mean?. -> Yes, the sword is on “Manager’s Attitude”.

Here is a strange story(not so strange for some people) -> A testing team under a manager(immediate superior) who doesn’t know testing !!!!!!!!!!!!!????...

When I say “manager doesn’t know testing, it's not about millions of testing definitions(or) different testing approaches but the impact of testing which is the key from manager’s perspective.

It is not the question of, who is capable of taking the manager’s role?? But whether the managers are willing to learn or not????? It is very crucial for a manager to align with the team to know his/her team's activities and more importantly the team's impact in the whole picture.

How many managers can say, they know in/out of their team’s activities????????—>Many… but hope people will agree with me that, there were some, who doesn’t even bother to know the activities of their own team, they simply think that, managing the metrics will do it for them…

Then what is their role as a manager????? (just to approve leaves and to provide appraisal ratings!!!!!!!- on what basis????)..

These managers who doesn’t know the objective and impact of his/her team’s work will definitely rate their team members depending upon metrics and statistics, sometimes even number of defects irrespective of its severity will fetch you platinum rating... :)
Personally, I feel numbers(ratings) doesn’t matter. but the fact is.. it will have impact of its own.. money -> huge impact, position.... hopefully list will go on and on…

Unless these managers change their attitude, this issue can't be sorted out. Managers should not get stagnated & say “From now on, I will work only with outlook and excel sheets”. Instead they should be willing to learn more, which will in turn make their whole team to learn more….

I'm reminded of a beautiful quote by John Quincy Adams:
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." These italic blue lines were stolen from a cricket column written by akash chopra….:)

Even if you can’t inspire your team, you can just Shift+dlt your trust on micro-management, believe in you and your team, that will do wonders-> this was not stolen, it’s mine.. :)

Team: If your immediate manager has M-ve, pull up yourself and act fast to change his/her attitude if that is not feasible (M's EGO...) at least don’t allow his negative attitude to seed in you.

Impact for organization: Immediate managers will reflect company’s brand value for their team and If he/she has good attitude then the team will have a great image on company and if he/she is bad then simple, they will update their resume and knock the next door…..:)

P.S : All the above points were not only specific to Managers with M –ve, but also applicable to all who are having negative attitude, But If a manager have this M-ve then, it will definitely affect the entire team. I hope, people with M+ve will never ever care on the above……

Have a great attitude ……… :)

Cheers,
Venkat.
All izz well………

Catch me @ kpvenkatesan84@gmail.com

Resume Testing !!!!???

Recently(some weeks back…),I have read an article which said “ Testers have mistakes in their own resume - and if they are not able to test their own resume then...??!!!!” I don’t remember the article name and by whom? (I really have a bad memory, when I surf through….).

Is there a rule that, once a product is tested, it should not have any defects??????... and is there any process to be followed for "RESUME TESTING"?????

Lets take it in a common pool …

Below were quite some pins that struck me....... when i was about to update my resume...

It is so hard to find fault in your own product !!! resume is our own product and we developed it. even someone can say “you have to test it as if the product(resume) developed to someone else….” But I don’t think that is 100% possible simply because we are humans not TRANSFORMERS!!!...

This is a product(resume) which has millions of opinions/ views and I can bet you that, each person will come up with their own remarks which will be contrast to one another on any resume.

Common remark will be on something like number of pages….. how many pages should your resume have??? (someone will say depends upon your experience!!! – I don’t agree..)
Someone will say, let resume be only of two pages and explain all you have in the interview.. you know what – these resumes will never cross first screening (don’t argue that I got through with two pages – this is my view and it happened with some of India’s top most companies - not to me, but to my friend) I am sure that “Everyone who reads this post will have their own opinion and view on this post” and this is what exactly happens with our resume.

Even you can get your resume reviewed by your mentor/someone who is really great in all perspective or a great tester in resume domain!!!.. :) but I will tell you that unless the guy who is holding your resume thinks “this resume is ok” , your resume can’t sneak through.

It doesn’t mean that you can take a white paper with your best drawing to impress the person, who is going to hold your resume. :)

Spelling mistakes in resume… we can assign this to spell check option but I don’t know who tested this spell check option!!!!!(but according to me, no one will like to see spelling mistakes in your resume that’s for sure…so be aware of that- I don’t know how many spelling mistakes were there in my posts!!!! ).

All the above pins makes testing your resume, a harder task .. and you can tend to do a mistake.

It doesn't mean that "you are a BAD TESTER, simply because you have a mistake in your resume".Humans should do mistakes .......and learn from it...(i think all testers are humans...) and is there a tester? who can say " i have tested it and it will not have any defect"..same happens with your resume.

So don't believe in - Testing your resume is a process with benchmarks and criterias.. if i miss something then they will stamp me as a "BAD TESTER".

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According to me, resume is just a “business card” which will tell something about you and your profession but evaluating a person’s ability with resume is not just right until the recruitment is for resume designing :) – this is to people sitting in interview panel.

So atlast what we have to do to make a perfect resume????
(test it based on six sigma!!! :) so that we get an Oscar/or at least a job for us......????)

My answer will be - I DON’T KNOW…………………….. This is what I ended up with, when I tried to tailor my resume..

I know a person(Old friend-quite older than me), who got rejected in a resume screening process by one of the best company, but got an offer with the same resume from another top company. So the concern is only whether your resume looks good to you or not?....

“STICK TO YOUR OWN WAY, WHATEVER YOU THINK IS RIGHT” and the logic is simple “Fortune favors the bravo”.

All the best……………………for your Oscar/new job.

P.S: Still I haven’t finished my resume updation, "I should have done that instead of spending time in this post ……. :) ”.

Enjoy your day ahead....

Have fun,
Venkat.
All izz well……….

Catch me @kpvenkatesan84@gmail.com