Five for Friday – October 1, 2021

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…

I implied at the end of my last post that I’d follow up after my keynote (I failed – sorry). This was a weird conference for me. While I attended nearly all of the keynotes, I only made it to a few other sessions, and didn’t have as much time to hang out with folks…

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…

In music, the better you are at the basics, the better you are on the bandstand. Even the pro musicians I know practice almost every day. I think testers (and developers) forget the value of practice too often. In The Passionate Programmer, Chad Fowler suggests doing the exercises on CodeKata. I checked them out, and…

I left out a couple of obvious things in my career post yesterday and thought I’d write them down before I forgot. Managers Yesterday, I wrote about the non-management career path for testers at MS. There is, indeed, a career path for managers – I just tend to talk about the non-management career path because…

Because more than ever, all I do is what my calendar and Todoist tell me to do, it’s time for me to spit out. a few things I liked this week from the internet. ICYMI, I wrote an article about me kicking the tires with PractiTest A colleague at work shared this article on Hiring…