Five for Friday – November 8, 2024

Once again – here are five things I found worth sharing this week. Steve Denning investigates The Hidden Heart Of 21st-Century Management Dawid Dylowicz wrote a fine blog post on what it’s like Joining A Startup As The First QA I’m sure you’re all aware of the recent malicious dependency issue that was blazing the internet. If…

I apologize in advance for yet another exploration of what testers do. More and more, I feel that Brent is right, and Test is a 4 Letter Word, but I feel we (whatever we want to call ourselves) can advance through discussion of our roles and responsibilities. A few weeks ago, I was talking to…

I recently ran across this article on nytimes.com from over a year ago. Here’s the punch line (or at least one of them): “We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found…

I recently wrote a bit about my role on the Lync test team at Microsoft. I thought it may be interesting to share a bigger picture of what the team does for those interested in how we do what we do. At the surface is the "who" and the "what" of the team. We have…

You probably couldn’t tell, but my last post was part of my exploration into careers in test. Which I’m exploring because of my worry that so many of the discussions in test haven’t changed in the last ten years. I better try to come up with a better explanation before everyone thinks I’m crazy. A…

This post isn’t really testing related, so skip it if that’s what you’re looking for. Late Saturday night, I returned from my first trip to Israel. I was invited to present at the Intel Software Professional’s conference in Tel Aviv a few months back, and I gave an updated version of my STAR East 2010…