John recently attended a training on methods of coaching employees. The tactics included identifying ways people communicate, listening, and providing feedback.

John recently created a series of technical training classes available to all Novell testing employees. The sessions are hosted either by John, himself, or other interested parties. Some of the topics at the most recent trainings include: Selenium, Bash Scripting, Python, and Firebug.

John was invited by BYU to come and host a networking dinner on campus one evening this week. John brought along his wife and together they fielded questions from a table of current BYU students. He provided advice and suggestions on their career plans. He was very impressed by the caliber of students currently attending [...]

Novell recently held a global company Quality Summit. John was invited to provide a 90 minute session on testing and development tools. He opened up the session to several groups around the company to provide “teaser” demonstrations of tools used in their organizations. The session was labeled a great success.

John attended at training on Novell’s latest ZENworks Application Virtualization product. He is now responsible for using the product in conjunction with Novell’s internal ZENWorks Configuration Management initiative that he spearheads.

John Andersen represented Novell at the recent BYU alumni networking event. This event was held with the purpose to introduce BYU students to the importance of networking with other professionals. They invited several working professionals among a broad variety of markets to mingle with students and answer professional questions. We were favored to listen to [...]

John Attends software testing lectures provided by Michael Bolton. Topics included “Oracles, Three sources for project information, Test Coverage, and Confirmation vs. Exploration.

John just finished a nine day visit to the Novell SRM Quality Assurance Summit in Bangalore, India. The summit topics ranged from test reporting, planning, Scrum, and Automation practices. John also met with his peer teams and got to know the team members better.

John attended at training on Novell’s latest ZENworks Application Virtualization product. He is now responsible for using the product in conjunction with Novell’s internal ZENWorks Configuration Management initiative.

John recently expanded his role at Novell by assuming management of the testers involved in the Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management product. He has been assigned the Product Prime for QA on the project. John will continue managing the Automation Developments for the business unit as well as the ZENworks Configuration Management QA team.