Secrets of SDET Success

I had a not-so-good week last week.Lot’s of stuff too private for blog sharing, but let’s just say it was a cascade of dark and bad times that nobody should have to go through. One of the bits of bad luck was that the LCD on my laptop broke. Normally, this wouldn’t be so bad….

Welp – it’s been another one of those weeks. Here’s some stuff I found that helped me get by. I’m still on a fiction break. This week, I read Ready Player Two – and it wasn’t bad. I definitely enjoyed the first book more, but this one was enjoyable and a good read (and I’m…

From Sweden this week – I’m attending and speaking at the Oredev conference this week. In fact, I had a few interesting conversations this week about the convergence of DevOps and quality. But…is DevOps a role or a culture? This podcast from CodingBlocks discusses just that. A few months old, but I enjoyed this article…

Five things on my mind – or interesting this week: I recently re-read a chunk of The Lean Startup, and highlighted yet-another-quote-about-failure-and-learning. “When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.” — Eric…

It’s Friday, and it’s time to share five things I thought were interesting this week. That’s all for this week – I’ll try again in seven days or so.

I gave a short talk to an internal MS community this week. The topic of the day was “influence”, and I thought it was appropriate to talk about the value of building (and maintaining!) an informal network – and the impact of that network on influence. The advice to have an informal network isn’t new…