John recently received management training on the topic of “Change Management”.  The course was offered through the Harvard Business Review.  Some of the topics that John brushed up on include the dimensions of change, implementing change, and communicating change. John learned that successful managers of change have the following attributes:  They are accepted by others [...]

John attended a webinar sponsored by StickMinds and Rally. The focus of the training was how to integrate testing in Agile development teams. Areas covered included Roles of testers, Mistake Proofing a product, Flipping the Dev Triangle, and testing within the iteration. You can view the slides at: How to Succeed at Agile – Presentation

John recently was assigned to manage a group of testing resources in Novell’s Data Center family of products that are developed in Provo. John’s responsibilities still include the ZENworks product family, and the Endpoint Security product, but will also include a couple of products under the PlateSpin name as well.

Development and test leads invited John to visit with them to provide a tour of the new FamilySearch concept that they are working on. This version of FamilySearch is the cutting edge of family history tools engineered by the LDS Church. John learned about the technologies they are pioneering and given an architectural tour of [...]

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 [...]