Thursday morning at Star West found me in a workshop held by Dorothy Graham and Mieke Gevers. It was actually two workshops split by the morning break. The attendees self-organized into 7 or 8 groups to talk around a particular topic.

For the first part I went to the ‘Getting Started’ group as I certainly have no small number of ideas on how to do it. There was lots of angst about having automation thrust on people and in particular QTP (which then inspired The Relationship of Testing Tools to Economics & Freedom). It also resulted in another unfortunate incident which I’ll document later.

The second part was I think much better than the first. In the second, there was only two groups; one which Mieke participated in directly on building a framework and one on ROI which Dot facilitated. This format lent to greater depth of dialogue and deeper learning. In the future, I think they should do it in this format again.

Each group took notes on chart paper art-show style which were photographed. Once I get a copy of them I’ll update the post.