Five for Friday – November 20, 2020

We made it through another week. There’s still too much bad news in the world for my tastes, but I managed to find a few things worth sharing that aren’t about wars, human rights, or idiot politicians. The folks over at Practitest listed me among some testing folks to follow in twitter. There may be…

Recently, I was helping another part of the team with a project. Or at least it ended up that way. There’s a particular bit of what they’re doing where I have some expertise, so I volunteered to take care of a chunk of the work where I thought I could help out. One thing I’ve…

We’ve burned through a month of 2022 already. Here’s some stuff to look at going into month 2. I came across this article on balancing work on engineering teams that aligns a lot with my thinking I probably mentioned this before, but I just re-read Julie Zhuo’s The Making of a Manager, which I probably…

I think it’s been a long time since I took more than a week between posts. I was busy at WAT2, and then busy catching up from being busy at WAT2. I’ve had a busy travel schedule this year (a plane trip every month so far this year), and although Durango is closer to home…

Leave it to Adam Goucher to beat me to the punch line. When I proposed that breaking down your definition of quality to a manageable set of ilities is a reasonable method for improving customer perceived quality, the logical next step is to try and find out which of the ilities you need to care…

I intended for my last two posts to cover the main points of my STAR West keynote, but I neglected to mention a few of the books I referenced in my talk (which not coincidentally, are some of my most recommended books for those studying leadership. I first read Leadership on the Line as part…