Madness, Math and (half) Marathons – and Medium!

Status meetings are boring. More importantly, status meetings are unneeded. Meetings are for discussion, and updates on status rarely require that (until, of course, they do). Nothing – nothing is more painful than sitting through a meeting where people go around the table and say, “Today, I’m doing X”.  Hopefully nothing alarming so far. A lot of teams…

I think I may have actually had a pretty good week. Some things fell into order, and I feel almost…rested. Here are a few links to get your week going. Thanks for reading – see you next week.

I’m back at the job after a long break (including a month vacationing in Australia – trip report coming). I spent a chunk of time after the Xbox One ship figuring out what the next step in my software career was going to be. In the days up to the Xbox One launch, I hinted…

I’ve been meaning to write about this particular anti-pattern for a while now, as I think it contributes far too much to the lack of progress in advancing software testing. Up until five minutes ago, I called this the anti-silver bullet theory, in reference to Fred Brooks 1986 paper, No Silver Bullet as much as the…

I’m excited to experiment with Github Chaos Actions – I came across them last weekend in this article. Yes, I think I will link to yet-another Michael Lopp blog post. This time it’s a post about your mid-year leadership checkin. This post on the dystopian world of software interviews is on the money. This is…

My calendar has been…exploding lately (all good meetings – just re-org aftermath). I’ve been using reclaim.ai to keep an eye on meeting trends and to automatically block out 30-60 minutes every afternoon in order to make sure I don’t get too far behind. Here’s a nice article asking, Do I need Kubernetes Old article, but…