Five for Friday – January 11, 2019

  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…

Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

We’ve burned through a month of 2022 already. Here’s some stuff to look at going into month 2. I came across this article on balancing work on engineering teams that aligns a lot with my thinking I probably mentioned this before, but I just re-read Julie Zhuo’s The Making of a Manager, which I probably…

Part of our rhythm of business at Microsoft is setting yearly commitments. Technically, we do these in July for the fiscal year, but we were in the middle of shipping, so I didn’t get to my commitments until recently. On one hand, I don’t like commitments, as in many cases they don’t allow for change…

A few days ago, I began a verbal exploration of testers who code and coders who test. That post provides some context for today’s continuation, so if you have a moment, go ahead and check it out. OK – I know you didn’t read it (or you read it already), so I’ll give you the…