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I’ve had a few conversations on twitter over the past few weeks about tester titles. My conclusion is that test titles are meaningless, but let’s look at why I think that, and why it doesn’t matter. Let’s say you’ve been testing for eight years, given a conference presentation or two and wrote a bit about…

Chris McMahon’s latest post (Just Fix It) proposes that as far as bug tracking goes, the best course of action is to skip the “tracking” part of the workflow and “Just Fix It.” I’m a huge fan of this approach and think that for the most part, tracking a large number of bugs in a…

Yet another view into what I found and liked this week. I’ve been a fan of singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding (nee Wesley Stace) for a few decades (he played at my 40th birthday party!). He did a remake of his own song (Scared of Guns) for an Appleseed compilation – which you can hear here….

Quote I’m pondering: “Anyone operating with a theory of leadership that assumes that experts know what is best, and that then the leadership problem is basically a sales problem in persuasion, is in our experience doomed at best to selling partial solutions at high cost” – Heifetz, et al in The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. I’ve…

I think it’s been a year since How We Test Software at Microsoft made its way to store shelves (and amazon). For the first few months, I watched the amazon sales ranking multiple times a day. I took a screenshot last December 18th that shows one of the few times we hit the #1 testing…