Climbing out of the Box: Bringing Your Quality Career into the Digital Era by Anne Hungate

1. Climbing out of the Box:
Bringing Your Quality
Career into the Digital Era
Anne Hungate
February 2020

2. Climbing out of the Box

3. Key Learning:
1. Whether or not you’re in a box right now
2. If that box is working for or against you
3. Why and how to climb out of the box

4. Are you in a box
right now?
How did we get here…

5. Understanding it…
Beliefs we have about:
What is right and what is wrong
What is possible and what is impossible
Self-talk that keeps us from making changes
Performance expectations others put in front of us

6. How we got there…

7. Reinforced

8. For the right reasons

9. Change what we think about ourselves
Change what others see as possible

10. Platform to launch yourself and others

11. Climbing out of the Box
“No one can tell you what to do with your life and there is no
‘one-size-fits-all’ escape that will lead you to happiness.”
Rob Symington
Co-founder of Escape the City

12. When the box benefits others more…

13. Climbing out of the Box

14. Climbing out of the Box

15. Is the box
working for you
or against you?
Not all boxes are bad…

16. When you don’t fit into the box

17. A great place to start

18. When the box holds a gift

19. Testing the limits

20. Why and how to
climb out of the
box
Without belonging…

21. From Powell to Los Angeles
… a new comfort zone

22. Climbing out of the Box
No job
No pending release
A weak script
Some ideas

23. Proceed with confidence

24. Learn and practice

25. Getting past “belonging”

26. Quality and Digital Disruption
Discovery
Project
Definition
Story
Definition
Development
& unit test
Integrated
test
System &
Perf Test
Acceptance
Current QA Scope
Opportunity

27. Reward for the courage

28. Thank You
Keep the conversation
going!!
@annehungate
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
annehungate/