The Six Biggest Mistakes I Ever Made as a Test Leader and Still Thrived
Let’s face it, everybody makes mistakes. While it’s never the end of the world when mistakes happen sometimes it can seem like it. Particularly if it's highly visible or seen by senior management. But sometimes a mistake can magically turn into an opportunity. Or at least an opportunity to grow and learn.
Join Ken as he shares some of his darkest leadership secrets: the big bug he missed and Bill Gates found, the battles he took on and lost, and how those missteps didn’t end his career. In fact, sometimes, out of failure, came the greatest growth for him and his teams. Yes, it is possible to step in “it” and still move forward and be successful.
Ken Johnston is a frequent keynote presenter, trainer, blogger, and author on software testing and data science. Currently he is the CEO of Autonomic.ai and Senior Director of Cloud Platforms and Telematics for Ford Motor Company. Prior to Ford, Ken worked for Microsoft for 25 years in various roles including Data Science Manager for the Microsoft 360 Business Intelligence Graph (M360 BIG) within Windows, GPM for Bing Local and Segments search, General Manager Office 365 Cloud Development Team, and Test Manager for Commerce Server. For two and a half years he served as the Microsoft Director of Test and Operations Excellence building the learning curriculum for both engineering disciplines. He earned his MBA from the University of Washington, is a coauthor of How We Test Software at Microsoft, and is a contributing author to Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. You can contact him through LinkedIn.