A Little Q & A

It’s FfF time again I think (hope) everyone knows that this blog series is based entirely on Tim Ferris’s Five Bullet Friday posts. I listen to some of Tim’s podcasts – and his recent interview with Eric Schmidt is fantastic. If you don’t like podcasts, there’s a transcript here. I’ve been thinking about interviewing and…

In the absence of information, people will make stuff up. This is a phrase I share often with mentees and colleagues – most often when talking about progress on a project they’re working on. I once saw a colleague take a lot of heat for a project he was leading – he was making great…

I took a ski day today – snow was soft, but held up pretty well until the afternoon. Here are a few things I read this week worth sharing. I’ve been reading a lot about feedback recently. Forbes had a good article this week on Flawless Feedback for Ferocious Teams This article hit a little…

Inspiration for my blog posts often comes from whatever’s evoking emotion in my life (annoyances, victories, gripes, etc.). Three things happened today that ensured that I’d write this post. Here’s the story of a question from a seven year old, a phone call, and an email. The first incident was a common one. My son…

It’s the Friday the 13th edition of FfF. Here’s some stuff to read. A few months old, but new to me and something I believe in strongly – Good Developers are Raised, not Born. I’ve been a fan of Sonos speakers for years now, and I’m bummed I don’t really have any need to purchase…

Perhaps it’s just the nature of the tester, but I’ve seen a lot of complaints from testers recently. “Managers do the wrong thing”, “Testers need to do more ‘x’”, “Testing isn’t taken seriously”, “These people don’t understand what I do”, gripe, mumble, etc. Of course, it’s easy for me to tell you to quit your…