Five for Friday – April 12, 2019

I posted a few months ago regarding my move to using a virtual machine as my “mail” machine. I’m still a huge fan of that approach, but in my new job (the really cool one working on the Xbox team!), I’m running Win7 rather than server as my main machine. I looked into using an…

Short story is that TestBash may be my new favorite testing conference. Great venue (no, fantastic venue), well-organized, and excellent variety and diversity across the different presentations. I was reflecting while walking the streets of Philadelphia this morning and realized that almost every talk was experiential – filled with stories of problem solving and discovery. For those who…

I’m back from a quick trip to New York City where I managed to give two workshops and a keynote without boring anyone to death. Here are five of the things I found interesting between talking, working, and learning. A lot of news recently about depression and its long impact has put this quote from…

Friday again – and it’s a beautiful day in Seattle. Here are some things I found today that maybe you want to know about too. …and yes, I do feel bad about those two puzzles where I couldn’t solve the word. Anyway, I thought this analysis on wordle letter usage was really well done –…

Calendar math says I’m a few hours into the 39th day since I started at Unity. I’m still well within the honeymoon window, but my optimism and excitement about working here continue to grow. It’s just a pretty damn cool place to work. I’ve met most of my team face to face, and will spend more…

I’m reading the Lean Product Playbook – which has this quote (similar to the Poppendiek quote I also frequently mention.As Dave McClure of 500 Startups said, “Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems.” Here’s an article on two of my favorite things – Kanban and Crossing the Chasm – Crossing the…