Five for Friday – April 12, 2024

Another week – a few more interesting discoveries from the internet.

  • First off – the 2024 DORA survey is out. I look forward to seeing the results and analysis when they’re available.
  • I continue to be a fan of Steve Denning’s writing – and of simple heuristics as well. His latest article on A Powerful Tool That Sees Behind The Financial Headlines is really interesting.
  • I found Sad Servers this week. It’s like a CTF – but for debugging linux servers.
  • I dropped using Windows when I left Microsoft (and used a Mac laptop my last year there). But it’s taken me until this week to discover RayCast, and I’m an insta-fan.
  • Finally, HBR hit it out of the park with this short – and painfully accurate article on 4 Reasons Why Managers Fail.

That’s Five, so I’m out. Have a great weekend.

Similar Posts

  • Who Owns Quality?

    On request from Adam Goucher – another excerpt from How We Test Software at Microsoft.  BTW – Adam wrote a review of HWTSAM here – although Linda Wilkinson beat him to the clever title. This is from a section on quality in chapter 16. It’s something I believe strongly in and would love to hear…

  • Why Office Communicator?

    Since announcing my pending job change, several people have asked me, “why did you choose the Office Communicator group for your next position?” The answer is also part of the internal talk I’m giving this week on career tips, so I thought I’d share it here. One of my favorite things about Microsoft is the…

  • Roles and Boxes

    The fine folks at the Ministry of Testing keep promoting my blog posts, so the least I can do is give them a link and a shout out. I’m looking forward to talking about “Testing without Testers” at Test Bash Philadelphia (preview here) and about my role on the team. This morning, I passively listened…

  • HWTSAM – Six Years Later

    We’re less than a week away from the sixth anniversary of How We Test Software at Microsoft (some chapters were completed nearly seven years ago). Recently I was considering a new position at Microsoft, and one of my interviewers (a dev architect and also an author) said that he had been reading my book. I…

2 Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.