Don't make this mistake
"You're fired" was the last thing I remember as I walked out the door.

"You don't need to come on Monday. You're fired!"

Those were the words that got branded in my brain at the end of my very first test manager assignment.

...It was a project developing a state of the art touch screen smartphone that would revolutionise the world.

"This is an opportunity of a lifetime"

I thought when starting on the job. So, I spent the first six months perfecting our testing processes. We were doing everything as right as humanly possible. Our acceptance tests championed a pass rate of 98% and the feature owners cheered.

The lightning struck when our CTO got the prototype in his hands. The screen had haptic feedback so that tapping it would feel like pressing real buttons. The feature was specified just right. "The device shall produce a haptic feedback on a screen event in less than 50ms"

The tests were planned and executed right as well. Pass rates were booming and everything was seemingly right.

...The only problem was that swiping the screen caused more than one event on the screen. A LOT more! When swiping pics in the gallery, the phone instantly became a vibrator in the hands of our CTO. With a little dildo in his hand his expression was priceless. He forced a polite smile and said "carry on!"

Three weeks later I got the message. I got fired and the whole project got terminated.

I blamed everyone else for the downfall. I blamed the stupidity of my clients, bosses and colleagues until...

...one night months after the incident I woke up in a realisation.

I had nobody else to blame but myself. After all, I had been the test manager. And looking myself at the mirror, I knew I had lacked the skill to see and lead our quality to a better outcome.

For too long I did things right at the
​expense of doing the right things!

I knew I didn't want to go through the same destruction ever again so I started the journey.
In this book, I've compressed everything that I've learned and field-tested since. You can read the whole thing in less than a day. Taking the ideas and implementing them can skyrocket your career as a testing professional as well as help you avoid such failures that I experienced!
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15 years of learning by doing, and over 2400 personal meetings on how to succeed in software development is now compressed into this diamond. Storytools of Testing: The Most Unlikely Toolkit of a Testing Professional.

Until end of month you can get the book on 50% discount! Check it out below!
P.S. Always keep in mind. Testing is improving things through other people! Learn the skills you need!
Antti Niittyviita, CEO & Entrepreneur, Prove

Who am I and what is Prove?

My name is Antti Niittyviita and today I run a 40 employee business called Prove in Finland.

Our business is the mental health of software industry - testing and quality assurance.

Everybody is just happier when software works!

Now, for the decade of 2020, my mission is simple. To 10x the business and document the journey so others may follow.

I believe this is the best thing that entrepreneurs can do to help the world get back to it’s feet post-corona.

To survive and thrive!
​"Antti is one of the most authentic and cheerful persons I've ever met. He has huge energy as a speaker ready to be unleashed!"

​-Andre Noel Chaker, Chairman, MySpeaker
"A true leader is one who has mastered the effectiveness of taking action with the passion that magnetically engages people to enthusiastically grow his mission. Antti is this leader. To read this book is to choose to be infused by his Passion for Excellence!"

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"What I love about Antti is that he is the type of person who makes the world a better place. His amazing energy shines through and is contagious!"

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"Even though, he is an engineer, Antti has some profound insight to humanity, entrepreneurship, marketing and personal development"

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