January - Talk: Building a Personal Skillset + 2020 Topics Discussion

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a pleasant festive period. This month's meetup will be in two parts.

Firstly, Richard Paterson will be talking about Building a Personal Skillset.

As your career progresses, it can be easy to neglect your skillset. With so much going on, and so much change, it is too easy to be borne along by the current, picking up pieces of skills, but never approaching mastery.

As the workplace changes, our job role can no longer define the boundaries of our abilities. We need to mindfully widen our skillset in support of our own goals and the needs of our team.

In this talk I'll provide, using a real world example, a set of tenets by which you can approach the acquisition of skills throughout your career.

We'll devote the rest of our time to collectively decide what testing (and testing-related) topics and sessions we'd like to see in the next year of the meetup.

Richard Paterson | Bio
Richard is Head of Testing and Application Security at SAS R&D Scotland. He considers himself a designer, leader and maker in addition to being a tester.
Richard has been a tester for over twenty years, initially working in Defence and more recently in Law Enforcement / Intelligence and Data Management. Richard has built up a multi-talented test organisation within SAS R&D Scotland over the last ten years. His approach to test leadership is to support and enable his testing function, constantly looking for and championing new ideas and approaches.
Richard helps run the Ministry of Testing meetup in Glasgow, occasionally blogs at http://rcpaterson.co.uk/blog and tweets
@rocketbootkid