This just in: My manager has agreed to allow me to follow my dreams of cross-team QE demos and bug finding competitions. At my company, agreeing to let me persue this does not mean time and budget or resources to persue it, just that I have a chance to stalk people for resources, convince them to help me do it, and to use my charm and charisma (plus begging and making cookies), to try to get it to happen. On my side? Excessive enthusiasm. Against me? I'm already pretty overloaded, but hey, it's worth some risk if you really really WANT to make a difference. It's worth me giving mediocrity to less important things to really give this area I care about my very best. Nothing gives me thrills quite like testers from multiple teams in a bug finding frenzy for prizes and small scale fame. I'm doing my best to make testing more fun and efficient at my company in the way I believe is best. What else can I work on that is as important? Making more useless automation to maintain? Covering my butt more completely with further layers of documentation?

I just heard back from the legal department at my job! I am now free to talk at will about my testing idea with the general public!

This is great news.

Plus the lawyer told me that he hopes I write a paper. I plan to not let him down, although it will be much more blog than paper.

I'm swamped with bugs this week and testing shiny future operating systems, so most likely I'll get time to start this weekend or next week. Expect few blogs here until "The big one". I want your feedback, so please be ruthless. Tell me my ideas are NOT new, NOT origional, and pick them to shreds. Umm. Then help me put them back together as the stronger leaner few survivors?

Coming Soon: My Bug Harvest Idea in detail.

*wanders off singing to herself much like Bruce Almighty-"I've got the powah!"*