Five for Friday – Friday, September 28

Here are a few of the things I found interesting this week.

  • I thought this article about “hacking” British Airways was sort of interesting – but mainly that they glossed over the real hack – “It is likely that the hackers had access to the BA.com site, and modified the code to insert a backdoor.” 
    Read and make your own judgement.
  • Camille Fournier (author of the wonderful book, The Managers Path posted this article on engineering productivity.
  • Ben Kelly says, You probably need fewer testers than you think (and he’s probably right)
  • Saw this on twitter from Cassie Kozyrkov on Speaking at conferences. It’s really good (especially compared to the usual posts on this topic)
  • Finally, I tweeted about this, but it’s worth calling out here too.

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