A while back, inspired by Roy Rappaport’s manager readme, I created my own. Unfortunately too late for most of my Unity hires, but a fun reflection exercise anyway. I originally had this on our internal wiki, but I recently moved it to my github site as a more permanent location.
A few of you already saw this go public last week in the hackernoon article, but for total transparency, you’re welcome to view my “manager readme” on my github site here.
The “Test This” game pops up frequently in testing circles. Sometimes it pops up in the “How would you test a …” variety – e.g. How would you test a stapler. Participants in the game are expected to come up with functional tests (can it staple), as well as “out of the box” tests like,…
I’ve started (finally) working from different rooms in my house this past week. I’ve found that this is very confusing for the dog, but I think she’ll be ok. Here are some things I found this week that may be interesting. Believe it or not, I found an article on Scrum that I actually liked….
I threw out a few trust-based tweets this week. I’m a big fan of #trust in the workplace – hire smart people, coach & guide them, but give them plenty of freedom to do the right things You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) involve everyone in decisions. But build trust by sharing why and how…
Well…it’s been another week. Hope everyone is holding up. As usual, here are some things I found this week. What do you do when a US state imposes an absolute asinine law and related process? You fuck that shit up and spin up some automation that floods their whistleblower site until it breaks. Oh wait…
I’m typing this week’s FfF from the Unity San Francisco office where I’ve been able to meet for the first time, people who have worked in my org for years. Fun stuff! Meanwhile, here’s some stuff I found this week. Loved this post from Zeno Rocha on The Two Typed of Quality Last week, I…
I’ve been pondering test automation recently. Maybe it’s because of my participation in the upcoming stp summit (note: shameless self-promotion), but that’s only the surface of it. I’ve complained about misguided test automation efforts before, but it’s more than that too. For every tester that cries out that 100% automation is the only way to…