I forgot to mention this before, but on Thursday, Jason Arbon from applause and uTest will be giving a practically free ($99) course on mobile application quality. Jason is a great teacher, and really knows his stuff in this area.
More information at the SASQAG web site (scroll down a bit on the home page)
A little over five weeks ago, I got a new job (one of the things I find great about MS is that one can change jobs completely without going through the hassle of filling out new forms). In that five weeks, I was in Germany for four days, and off for two days for Thanksgiving,…
Not only am I back for another week of FfF, but you are too! Thanks for reading. First up this week – in a title that’s obvious, but an article with substance. The Key to Retaining Young Workers? Better Onboarding. This is something I need to ask Brent about. Microsoft considers pay raises to stay…
I chair an advisory council for a community of senior testers at Microsoft. We have a variety of events ranging from talking heads to open space events to panels to whatever type of event we think is the most different than the previous one. Yesterday, we had our fifth annual “soapbox” event, a lightning talk-ish…
I threw out a few trust-based tweets this week. I’m a big fan of #trust in the workplace – hire smart people, coach & guide them, but give them plenty of freedom to do the right things You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) involve everyone in decisions. But build trust by sharing why and how…
…the paradox of testing: We want to find defects in the software under test, but we do not really want to find them".”Phillip Armour I often speak of Phillip Amour’s Five Orders of Ignoranceas they relate to software engineering (note; as of this writing, that link doesn’t work, but I don’t have another link to…