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I spent some time last week on our west coast. San Jose to be exact. The good folks at Adobe invited me to speak at their QA Summit at the San Jose Convention Center (thanks to Jordan Dea-Mattson and Serena Zhou). It was an eye-opening experience for me. Adobe devotes an entire week to a series of technical conferences each year, and brings together their employees from all over the world, as well as a few external speakers like myself. I'm told Tim O'Reilly spoke earlier in the week... I really hate that I missed that!
Some managers fail to understand the value of getting their people together to talk, share, and learn, but Adobe "gets it." When I gave my keynote on platform validation, the room was packed... there were five to six hundred QA professionals in the room. Then we moved to an adjacent room for a series of round table discussions. Even though I led one of the tables, it was fascinating to watch Adobe employees from Ottawa sharing solutions and ideas with employees from India and Seattle. I answered some questions, but I also listened to a lot of good information being shared.
You have to admire a company that makes such a strategic investment into their employees. Ultimately this investment pays off company-wide. Way to go Adobe!
Does your company do the same for you? Are they as successful as Adobe? Don't you think there might be a correlation?
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