How I became Agile when it came to mental health
summary
A perfectionist tester builds a mini Personal Development Life Cycle and starts treating mental health like sprint work with a tangible backlog: exercise, mentors, a tiny support circle, CBT and finally medication after a panic attack that required ambulance and ECG. Agile moves include backlog reprioritization, delegating ticket work and defining acceptance criteria for recovery tasks. Outcomes: panic attacks reduce, ability to manage teams improves, strategic work shrinks, and quality shifts from impossible perfection toward risk‑based testing and sustainable delivery.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38About my parents
- 1:19Expectations
- 2:01Moving to UK
- 3:03Quality Assurance
- 3:29Software Tester Challenges
- 6:35Backlog
- 8:00Spinning Plates
- 9:13I was not stopping
- 10:19I went home I changed
- 12:22My first conference
- 12:55Anxiety
- 14:52My backlog
- 15:05Recalibration
- 17:10Support circle
- 20:24Flow chart
- 21:08Scope creep
- 22:28Acceptance criteria
- 22:45Panic attack
- 28:11Telling people
- 31:37Recalibrate
- 37:10Work on yourself
- 37:38Conclusion
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