Secrets of SDET Success

It is Friday again. I spent the last week in Montreal where I walked a lot, and ate at far too many restaurants to list (but one free link is the vegan ramen at Umami – absolutely amazing). As usual here are a few (more than four, less than six) interesting things I found this…

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…

I’m planning to give an internal presentation this week on what I do. I’ve been in my new job for three months, and although I’m still learning, I have enough of a routine that I’d like to share it with a few peers across the company to get feedback and ideas. Most of what I…

I mentioned this on twitter a few times, but should probably mention it here for completeness. I’m taking a break. I’m taking a break from blogging, twitter, and most of all, my day job. Beyond July 4, 2014, I’ll be absent from the Microsoft campus for a few months– and most likely from social media…

Kind of a lot going on in the world of the Weasel this week, but I found a few things worth sharing. This came out well before FfF was a thing, but apparently my boss recently listened to this interview with me from ~6 years ago. I’m moving to a new manager at Unity, so…

It’s been exactly a year now since I left Microsoft (and a week away from my one-year anniversary at Unity). I (abstractly) dumped my feelings on the move a year ago in The Breakup, and posted a few thoughts and reflections in my first few months at Unity (Forty Days In, Why Unity, Musings on…