Career Paths for Testers Using Personas

Brent Jensen and I found some time together recently to talk about testing. For some reason, we decided to record it. Worse yet, we decided to share it! I suppose we’ll keep this up until we either run out of things to say (unlikely), or until the internet tells us to shut up (much more…

Not a bad week – not a great week – but it was a week. Here are some things new to me that you may like. I’ve talked (I think) about Pat Lencioni’s idea of Working Genius before, but the book arrived recently, and I read the entire thing in two sittings. Business fables aren’t…

  I came across a post this weekend about different types of knowledge It’s a well written post that calls out one of my favorite topics – you don’t know what you don’t know. I think the Five Orders of Ignorance (or my tribute to the five orders here) are brilliant, and the author nails…

A day late this week, but just pretend you lost track of time like I did. Here’s some stuff I liked this week. I’m continuing to wrap my head a bit around the SPACE framework from Nicole Forsgren, but this article has a nice pragmatic view. I’ve been playing quite a bit of Steamworld Dig…

Leave it to Adam Goucher to beat me to the punch line. When I proposed that breaking down your definition of quality to a manageable set of ilities is a reasonable method for improving customer perceived quality, the logical next step is to try and find out which of the ilities you need to care…

Last week, I spent my Wednesday evening talking with the folks at QASIG about test innovation. This is a variation on the talk I gave in November at Eurostar – changed enough so I didn’t get bored, and with some bonus chatter that can only come from a small friendly audience. The recording is here…