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Another week, another random five things I found interesting. Feedspot.com lists AB Testing in their top 10 software testing podcasts. Although it has “Testing” in the name, my 2019 goal is to get AB Testing into more Agile or Software Development podcast lists. Joel Montvelisky, who is one of the three AB Testing listeners is…

I chair an advisory council for a community of senior testers at Microsoft. We have a variety of events ranging from talking heads to open space events to panels to whatever type of event we think is the most different than the previous one. Yesterday, we had our fifth annual “soapbox” event, a lightning talk-ish…

I’m taking some time off this month from work, and think I’ll take a break from blogging too until 2011 (I reserve the right to change my mind if something really interesting comes up). It’s been a pretty good year for me, but as I reflect, it was a busy year too. Here are some…

I don’t know what day it is anymore. Fortunately I live by my calendar and a list of reminders in Todoist, so I know I should be posting interesting things I found on the internet. Ministry of Testing is doing a TestBash Home event. It’s 24 hours of presentations and discussions that looks like it’s…

Here we go again “In lockdown, Zoom expands to fill all of the manager’s available time.”I’ve been feeling the Zoom fatigue, and I’m not the only one. This article makes a valid (!) claim that the above quote is the third amendment to Parkinsons Law. I’m not very fond of scrum. Not because it’s necessarily…

I feel like today’s a good day to share a few stories about my first few months at Microsoft, and the (very) small part I played in shipping Windows 95. My start at Microsoft is a story on its own, and probably worth recapping here in an abbreviated form. I started at Microsoft in January…