Five for Friday – February 14, 2020

Here’s a tip. Want me to write about something in particular? Ask me a question. It’s that easy. Tim Coulter had a question about my last blog post. He asked: Would love to hear how you check code coverage of manual testing, actually. Is that just “feature coverage” (break it up into logical blocks and…

As I write this, I’m waiting (literally, waiting on hold) to give a webinar for Swiss Testing Night. It’s a twenty minute presentation – which I love (see my last post for another twenty minute presentation from me. I would love to see a test conference filled with nothing but 20-30 minute presentations someday (and…

Since last week, I’ve been to Helsinki and back – but still found a few things I think are interesting. This presentation on Increasing Engineering Tempo at Splice is all about accelerating the achievement of shippable quality. I’m reading Agile and Lean Program Management by Johanna Rothman – like her other books, it’s practical, easy…

Here we go again… If you’re a regular reader of these Friday links, you may wonder how I keep track of things I want to share. I use Pocket to save things I like. Without it, I’d have to reboot the series as One for Wednesday. Steve Denning is back in FfF with an article…

Another week where I’m really not happy with the state of the world. Between the war in Ukraine, ridiculous questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson, weirdness in general, I’ve needed the Internet to distract me more than ever. Here are a few of the things I’ve distracted myself with. I read Maidens by Alex Michaelides this…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…