Five for Friday – October 2 2020

I mentioned a week ago that I was giving a talk on career tips called “Ride the Gravy Train”. I gave the talk today (which had a remarkably large turnout), and think it’s a talk I’ll deliver again (with some tweaks). Without going into details, here are the tips: do the right thing try different…

I’ve referred to Pat Lencioni a lot here – but this quote from The Advantage has been high on my radar this week:“The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. Yet it is ignored by most leaders even though it is simple, free, and available to anyone who wants it.” I enjoyed this…

The wikipedia entry on test automation troubles me. It says: Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process. I can’t decide whether it bothers me because it’s wrong, or because so many people believe the statement is true. In fact, I know the approach in some…

I posted a few months ago regarding my move to using a virtual machine as my “mail” machine. I’m still a huge fan of that approach, but in my new job (the really cool one working on the Xbox team!), I’m running Win7 rather than server as my main machine. I looked into using an…

It’s been a weird week as I see more and more unmasked people milling about, but while still unnerving, it’s nice to see and end approaching. Here are some covid-free articles I found that seem interesting. I’ve been hearing a lot about Product Ops recently and then I found this article which provides (I think)…

I had a twitter conversation this week about roles this week. I’ll recap it – and expand on my views; but first I’ll tell a story. Very early on in the Windows 98 project, I was performing some exploratory testing on the explorer shell and found an interesting (and slightly weird bug). At the end…