Five for Friday – November 12, 2021

It’s been exactly a year now since I left Microsoft (and a week away from my one-year anniversary at Unity). I (abstractly) dumped my feelings on the move a year ago in The Breakup, and posted a few thoughts and reflections in my first few months at Unity (Forty Days In, Why Unity, Musings on…

I’m on vacation, and this post is auto-generated. See, you can trust automation sometimes… Another year gone by, and another few dozen posts. Here are the top viewed posts of the last year (note – not all of these were written last year – this is just what people read the most last year). In…

I’ve referred to Pat Lencioni a lot here – but this quote from The Advantage has been high on my radar this week:“The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. Yet it is ignored by most leaders even though it is simple, free, and available to anyone who wants it.” I enjoyed this…

I apologize in advance for yet another exploration of what testers do. More and more, I feel that Brent is right, and Test is a 4 Letter Word, but I feel we (whatever we want to call ourselves) can advance through discussion of our roles and responsibilities. A few weeks ago, I was talking to…

As I’ve mentioned recently (and probably way too many times by now), I’m in Munich to give two presentations at OOP 2011. My first presentation is tomorrow. Tomorrow evening, in fact, in the “Night School” track. Tomorrow’s schedule has tutorials in the morning, lunch, two keynote sessions, and then, after a short break, 4 concurrent…

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…