Greetings- Agility in the New Year

It is that time of the year when people start thinking about sending Greeting Cards, Buying Gifts etc. As a STC tester let it be different this year. 2009 has been the year of Agile and success from this year bound to flow into 2010. I would like everyone to think of greeting cards wishing others lots of agility in the new year. If you are to design a greeting card or a calendar what would be your message when thinking of successes of this year system wise such as 'there is Agile wave that is driving this new way of working to produce perfect solutions'.

Should we have 12 top messages from STC members and publish a calendar of our own and sell it openly?
What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Heusser on November 6, 2009 at 13:37

Oddly enough, in the past couple of weeks, I've started to get excited about Agile-Testing Again; I just did a blog post on this:

http://blogs.stpcollaborative.com/matt/2009/11/05/why-agile-why-now/

I don't know that I am excited about the idea of a Agile-Agile-Agile Calendar, but an STC calendar might be fun.

--HoyZa

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Permalink Reply by Joe Strazzere on November 6, 2009 at 14:14

I like the idea of a calendar.

Apparently there's a "What kind of tester are you?" picture book being developed, so a "12 types of Testers" calendar seems like an obvious followup.

But I'd rather wish folks "Quality" or "Successful Testing" or such in the new year.

I'm not sure that 2009 was the year of Agility, and 2010 may bring some other fad in software development.

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Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on November 6, 2009 at 14:42

Hmmm, it's November, doesnt give us too much time to get a calendar together :(

......unless we work in an Agile fashion and produce each month just before it's due !!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Mohinder Khosla on November 6, 2009 at 20:39

It depends on the target market, some companies have their financial year from April to April so there is plenty of time for that. If we want to show we believe in Agile then we should be able to achieve our objectives within 4 weeks with couple of iterations and with a good lead. Let's think of some Agile Mantra to cheers us up for Christmas. Ho! Ho! Ho!

I am also thinking about the big idea launch of STC magazine next year for which we may run a competition for people to submit humorous cartoons for the cover page. You may include jokes, poems and quotes if that looks good. As a reward, you may give away Paul Gerrard’s 'The Tester's Pocketbook' book. I am sure there are plenty of Testers out there who would gladly participate.