Yes – it’s more of Brent and Alan yelling at each other. But this time, Brent says that he, “hates the Agile Manifesto”. I also talk about my trip to Florida, and we discuss estimation and planning and a bunch of other stuff.
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When I was 9 years old, I’d play pick up soccer at recess. A couple of kids – the “leaders” would pick teams, and then we’d play. Since we were kids, the leaders of the teams were sometimes the best players, but usually the loudest kids. Leadership was short-lived, but effective for the purpose. I…
I am almost completely recovered from my bout with coronavirus. Only thing remaining is a lingering cough, and that I now need about two more hours of sleep a night than I have in decades. I’m still planning a long hike in a few weeks, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. In the meantime, I’ve…
When I’m interviewing experienced candidates (for any software role), one question I frequently ask is, “What’s your super power?” I like hearing answers like, “I can learn new things really quickly”, or “I’ve found over 1000 security bugs”, or even “I’m a batch file (or other language) wizard”. Recognizing super (or special) powers in yourself…
I’ve been gathering some information on test automation systems recently and will probably have a flurry of posts upcoming on automation and related subjects. Some observations as I browse what Bing has to tell me about the subject of Test Automation: Wikipedia tells me that test automation “commonly involves automating a manual process already in…
Here we go again… I’ve once again fallen into the trap of reading too many books at once. I will carve some time out soon to get caught up. The latest book to join my “in progress” queue is Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddle. Our views on estimation line up quite a lot,…
Another week whirled by – here’s some stuff I found worth sharing. I polished off another fiction book last week – this time it was Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It’s a quick and fun read – not 5-stars good, but definitely interesting enough to recommend. Someone on the ABTesting slack pointed me to rephonic.com,…