Five for Friday – March 15, 2019

Here’s stuff I found interesting. Some of it published recently – some is not.  I posted earlier this week about painful observations of “stand-ups” turning into horrible status sentences. Seth Eliot pointed me to this great post by Henrik Kniberg that covers my peeve better than I did. I’ve been reading Option B by Sheryl Sandberg…

Chris Mcmahon once (I think after reading this post) described me and my test role at MS as being like a “tenured professor” – that I have the freedom to choose what I do and choose how I go about it (as long as I show value). I enjoy this role, and think I’ve been…

I’m still here. In the same chair as last week. And the week before. And…forever. But here’s some stuff worth sharing to keep me distracted. Recent ABT343 guest and a Unity colleague, Melissa Eaden was on a webinar this week discussing Practical Applications of Modern Testing Principles I realized today that since I’ve been home,…

As 2012 comes to a close, I thought I’d recap the year. I think this little exercise is mostly for me, but I suppose new blog readers (or people with too much free time) may find some points of interest. Some more from the non-Microsoft front follows. My most popular blog posts from the last…

I’ve  been thinking a lot lately about what’s next in software testing. What are the new ideas in testing? What is our role in the future of quality software? How do we advance the state of the art in testing? But I worry. I think forward thinking will come from highly experienced testers with a…

Today I saw yet another info-byte on the perils of multi-tasking. I too, think that multitasking is rarely (if ever) as productive as multitaskers believe it is (note: my favorite study compares bong hits with multitasking…ymmv) – but we’ve all seen stuff like this over time. What’s missing from many of the studies and stories…