Five for Friday – Friday, September 28

I’m planning to give an internal presentation this week on what I do. I’ve been in my new job for three months, and although I’m still learning, I have enough of a routine that I’d like to share it with a few peers across the company to get feedback and ideas. Most of what I…

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 had a twitter conversation this week about roles this week. I’ll recap it – and expand on my views; but first I’ll tell a story. Very early on in the Windows 98 project, I was performing some exploratory testing on the explorer shell and found an interesting (and slightly weird bug). At the end…

I’ve been thinking about how professional testers describe themselves. We have high level labels like Tester, SDET, or Quality Engineer, but beyond those (mostly meaningless) titles, many of us have our own personal missions or visions – the words we want people to associate with us. For example, my twitter bio is, “Long time software…

Here are some of the interesting things that passed my way this week. I thought this article from Hotjar on “The 10 lessons we learned launching (& killing) our $200K mobile app” was a really interesting read (thanks Perze). The learning here align quite well with Modern Testing I’d think this article about the making…

Not only am I back for another week of FfF, but you are too! Thanks for reading. First up this week – in a title that’s obvious, but an article with substance. The Key to Retaining Young Workers? Better Onboarding. This is something I need to ask Brent about. Microsoft considers pay raises to stay…