Five for Friday – April 9 2021

HI again, everyone – I’ve temporarily turned OFF my exciting newsletter feature because I was seeing a large amount of spam email addresses show up. While they’re harmless, I think I can make the sign up feature work a bit better. Stay tuned. ok – here’s some new (to me) stuff I was on the…

Once again, I’m a day late, but who am I kidding – you read these on Monday anyway. This is a great article on why we’re so bad at software engineering As a self-proclaimed change agent, this article on change programs was interesting Ministry of Test is doing some podcast interviews with upcoming speakers. This…

If you’re interested in stalking me, here are some places I’ll be in the coming months. On October 18th, I’ll be talking about code reviews at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. If you want to catch me there, you better catch me on the 18th, because I’m flying to Toronto on October 19th to…

Another week of random stuff. Let’s see if anything is interesting… There’s a pair of excellent articles from the team at Slack about a recent incident and how they handled it. A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack, and All Hands on Deck I think I mentioned last week that I’m learning Rust…

I’m leaving early tomorrow morning for the Writing About Testing conference. I wasn’t able to attend WAT last year, but I’m looking forward to the trip, the meeting and talking with a group of great testers (who all enjoy writing about what we do). I don’t think there was ever a point when I thought,…

Way back in 2008 when I wrote chapter three of HWTSAM, I briefly mentioned the HiPPO in the context of ship room (war room) meeting structure: Everyone’s voice is important. A phrase heard in many war rooms is “Don’t listen to the HiPPO”—where HiPPO is an acronym for highest-paid person’s opinion. It was a term…