Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation today. Video and slides are below. For those who asked – some of my other online talks are here:
Thoughts on test strategy – http://www.vimeo.com/15853235
Code reviews for testers – http://www.vimeo.com/16753993
Ride the Gravy Train (and other career tips) from Alan Page.
I was checking out test conference programs, and found a list of talk titles I found intriguing (this is a sampling of titles from the conference). I’m curious to know how interesting and innovative you think this conference would be. The Art and Science of Load Testing Internet Applications Model-Based Testing for Data Centric Products…
At a recent internal forum, I hosted a panel discussion comprised of “senior” level testers at Microsoft. The panel was evenly split between managers and non-managers and we took random questions from the audience on career paths in test. The testers in the panel had experience ranging from 11 to 24 years in test. Some…
It’s time for the weekly visit inside things going through my head (and browser) this week. A bit of self-promotion in the last two bullets, but I hope you find these interesting anyway. I’ve been thinking a lot lately (on many fronts) about change – and resistance to change, and I’m reminded of this quote…
In my role on Teams, I was “in charge” of quality – which eventually turned into everything from the moment code was checked in until it was deployed to our end-users. At one point during development, we had a fully usable product with no known blocking issues. We were missing key features, performance was slow…
Hi again everyone – here are a few links I found this week that I like. I’m reading Unleashed, by Francis Frei and Anne Morriss and enjoying it a lot as it has some good advice on leadership This is a great article on best practices on post-mortems and incident review. Speaking of incidents –…
Friday snuck up on me, but the interesting links and thoughts kept coming. I hope you find something of interest here. I’ve been re-reading (re-re-reading?) Radical Candor, and this line poked me enough to write down. If you’re a people manager – or even if you just value relationships, it’s something to keep in mind.“Make…