Career Paths for Testers Using Personas

I probably haven’t mentioned in a while how nice it is to be back on a product team. The complexity and dynamic nature of software development is something I missed more than I knew, and I’m having fun being back in the flow of shipping a product for a million or so users. One thing…

If you want to skip the preamble and get to the point, just page down to the end of this post. The professional software testing community has a good support network of web sites dedicated (or partially dedicated) to answering questions about testing. Some of my favorites are: MSDN Testing Forums  SQA Forums Software Testing…

Last week I happened to log on to twitter just as some test folks were marveling over the the massive parallels between the video with the gorilla and the basketball players and software testing. I made some cracks about the absurdity of the hype, and more than a few testers freaked out. Somewhere in the…

Quote I’m pondering: “Anyone operating with a theory of leadership that assumes that experts know what is best, and that then the leadership problem is basically a sales problem in persuasion, is in our experience doomed at best to selling partial solutions at high cost” – Heifetz, et al in The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. I’ve…

My last post (from what I’m told) ruffled some feathers in my old team. I actually find that odd given how well known the types of actions I mentioned are among that team. I live my life as if everything is a learning experience. I mean that – everything. I don’t regret my time on Teams for…

Happy Juneteenth everyone – I hope you all find your own way to celebrate today. Here are some interesting things I found on the internet this week. First, I want to share an article about Juneteenth that I liked. Juneteenth: are we really woke this time? I enjoyed this article on the relationship between culture…