Creating and Using a Career Coverage

Matrix

Terry Wiegmann, CSQE, CBAP, PSPO, ACG

Director, QA Service Offering Lead

Quick Solutions, LLC

• Torn between wanting challenge or relying on what you know

• Over-emphasize expertise

• Underestimate transferrable skills

• How to abstract out transferrable skills

• How to genericize systems, apps, projects

Conundrums

Industry, Sector

Sector

• Public Sector

• Private Sector

• For Profit

• Non-Profit

Market

• Monopoly

• Competitive

• Regulated

• Emerging

Revenue Source

• Products

• Services

• Donations/Grants

Basis of Competition?

• Price

• Quality

• Prestige

• Cutting Edge

Product and Development

Product Lifecycle

• New Product

• Replacement/Upgrade

• Maintenance/Sunset/End of Life

Methodology

• Plan-Driven

• Agile

• Local Adaptations

• Ad-Hoc

Software Product/Service

• Back office

• Commercial Software Products

• Software Tools

• SaaS

Team and Environment

Work Environment?

• Cubes/Offices

• Pairing

• Pomodoro

Basis for advancement?

• Merit

• Longevity

• Tenure

Citizenship

• US Citizen

• H-1B

• Green Card

Time Zones/Cultural Span

What About You?

Seeking Change or Status Quo?

Captain?

How important is name recognition?

Where do you want to be? To go?

How important is the right title?

• Ladder

• Everyone the same

• Make up your own

• AVP

UnionProtectedMarket Regulated/At Will

Employment Status Preference?

Shifts

• First

• Second

• Third

• Swing

• Split

Employment Classification?

• Contractor

• Consultant

• Employee

• Staff or line?

Coverage

• Industry, Sector, Market• Company, Products,

Services• Practices, Values• Team, Environment• You

• Know what you want

• Know what you don’t want

• Abstract, generalize

• Transfer

• Connect

• Relate

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Career Coverage Matrix!