Five for Friday – January 17, 2025

I may have mentioned this on the old blog, but I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned it here yet. O’Reilly media recently released Beautiful Testing – a collection of essays from a variety of testing professionals (including yours truly). I received my copy over the weekend (much to the annoyance, I’m sure, of several other…

I posted slides from my Eurostar Mobile Deep Dive presentation on slideshare. I had a great time, and hope you find them useful. Let me know if you have questions.

I started a new job (still at Unity) on Monday. It’s hard (as expected), but also really, really fun. This blog post has a glimpse into part of my new organization. Janet Gregory has a great post on Limiting Work in Progress with lots of reminders for all of us. Similarly (serendipitously?), Darius Foroux blogged…

I love reading twitter after I give a talk, because I can review what I said and make sure I agree with it (I never know what will come out of my mouth when I’m on a stage in front of people – it’s part of my presentation style). At TestBash in Philadelphia, I (apparently)…

When I was 9 years old, I’d play pick up soccer at recess. A couple of kids – the “leaders” would pick teams, and then we’d play. Since we were kids, the leaders of the teams were sometimes the best players, but usually the loudest kids. Leadership was short-lived, but effective for the purpose. I…

I’ve been talking about meetings recently at work (I’m still giddy that have far fewer meetings to attend these days). I’ve had discussions about meetings for at least a decade, and they’re all about the same.People grumble about ineffective meetings, while others grumble about too many meetings. Some grumble about who should be in the…