Five for Friday – October 26, 2018

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…

Amazon just started sharing Nielsen BookScan reports to authors. Since I don’t get commissions for How We Test Software at Microsoft (hwtsam), I don’t generally see sales numbers, but I’m happy to see that people still buy the book (note for internal readers – orders through msmarket do not reflect in the BookScan ratings). Anyway…

A little late today, but still worth sharing… I’m currently re-reading (for at least the fifth time) Jerry Weinberg’s Secret of Consulting. It remains one of the best books I’ve read on leadership. A nice summary of what it means to take ownership in software. Ownership explained for Engineers and Managers From the “hits too…

I first heard of “10x” software development through the writings of Steve McConnell. Code Complete remains one of my favorite books about writing good software (The Pragmatic Programmer, Writing Solid Code, and The Clean Coder are also on that list). Steve McConnell’s rarely updated blog (titled 10x Software Development, contains the following tagline: Numerous studies…

Before the bullet points, I want to remind everyone that the 100th episode of AB Testing will be done live (via Zoom) at 8am PDT next Friday (April 12). If you want to listen in or participate, drop me a note (on twitter – @alanpage, in the comments, or email alan at <the domain where…

I’ve been on vacation (whatever that means) for almost a week now, and don’t plan to post again until 2012. To help fill in the break (and for anyone new to my blog), I thought I’d share some stats and popular posts from the last twelve months. I wrote 60 blog entries in 2011. Some…