Eurostar mobile deep dive

It’s been a pretty remarkable 2017 for me – so much so, that it’s worth (for me) a little reflection. This time last year, I had made the choice to leave Microsoft (but hadn’t told anyone yet). I went into work the week after Christmas (when nobody is there), and quietly cleaned out a bunch…

Here are some links I found interesting this week. I find Jim Gaffigan reasonably funny, but he’s gained additional respect from me this week when he lost it over Trump Steve Denning has thoughts on what good agile looks like Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything looks like it will be a really nice addition to the…

Thanks everyone who played the Numberz Challenge. I’ll get the boring part out of the way first. Based on response time and completeness (and bonus points for reverse engineering the “bad” parts of the app), lixiong is the winner of either a signed copy of HWTSAM or an Amazon gift certificate. Li – email me…

Another week, another five things I felt like sharing. That’s it – we’ll try again next week.

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…

I started a new job (still at Unity) on Monday. It’s hard (as expected), but also really, really fun. This blog post has a glimpse into part of my new organization. Janet Gregory has a great post on Limiting Work in Progress with lots of reminders for all of us. Similarly (serendipitously?), Darius Foroux blogged…