Five for Friday – November 20, 2020

This is the special time travel edition of FfF (I lost a day – mentally – while traveling). I have read, and re-read this article on Work is Work. It’s a fantastic analysis of organizational design. I plan on reading it yet again after I post this. It’s no secret that I like Radical Candor,…

I think a true passion for learning is one of the things that makes testers great. The best testers I know are always looking for concepts or viewpoints they haven’t heard before and looking for opportunities to learn anytime they can.But it’s usually not enough to just to want to learn – you need some…

I’d like to offer a bit of advice for everyone in the world (but especially to software testers). In just about every thing you do, every day of your life, it is possible to do something wrong. My challenge to you is to think deeply about how you can do things “right”. Some examples: If…

I’m back home and feeling *almost* healthy. I seemed to have caught a cold on my return trip (multiple negative covid tests – both pcr and antigen) – it seems weird that I think it’s necessary to say that, but it’s the world we live in. Here are some things I’ve found interesting this week….

I implied at the end of my last post that I’d follow up after my keynote (I failed – sorry). This was a weird conference for me. While I attended nearly all of the keynotes, I only made it to a few other sessions, and didn’t have as much time to hang out with folks…

Once again – here are five things I found worth sharing this week. Steve Denning investigates The Hidden Heart Of 21st-Century Management Dawid Dylowicz wrote a fine blog post on what it’s like Joining A Startup As The First QA I’m sure you’re all aware of the recent malicious dependency issue that was blazing the internet. If…