It’s been another incredibly busy week – many many meetings to help me ramp up – but I managed to find a few things worth sharing attempting to use the internet as a learning vehicle. It’s no coincidence that this article on Leaders and Time found its way into my queue I’m surprised I didn’t…
I started a new job (still at Unity) on Monday. It’s hard (as expected), but also really, really fun. This blog post has a glimpse into part of my new organization. Janet Gregory has a great post on Limiting Work in Progress with lots of reminders for all of us. Similarly (serendipitously?), Darius Foroux blogged…
It’s FfF time again I think (hope) everyone knows that this blog series is based entirely on Tim Ferris’s Five Bullet Friday posts. I listen to some of Tim’s podcasts – and his recent interview with Eric Schmidt is fantastic. If you don’t like podcasts, there’s a transcript here. I’ve been thinking about interviewing and…
Here’s some stuff I found to share this week. Keeping with my ongoing theme of articles on feedback, I liked this one on creating a feedback culture A site on DevTestOps popped up a few weeks back and is worth reading I’ve been thinking a lot about hiring and growing. I found this article on…
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…
It’s Friday. Here are five things I found this week worth sharing. First off, I am really enjoying playing Song Quiz on my Echo devices. It’s oddly addicting, and I have an embarrassing knowledge of 80s music. This is from over three years ago, but someone linked to this article from Rob Lambert on 10…
Winter left. Spring is here. It’s Friday. Careful readers may remember that I gave up on Windows almost a year ago. To be fair, this means that my gaming is almost all on Xbox now (and yes – I know more than most people that this is Windows too). Anyway – here’s the truth about…
I took a ski day today – snow was soft, but held up pretty well until the afternoon. Here are a few things I read this week worth sharing. I’ve been reading a lot about feedback recently. Forbes had a good article this week on Flawless Feedback for Ferocious Teams This article hit a little…
I’m still reading Scrum Mastery by Geoff Watts, but came across this paragraph that I’m sure seems relevant to my line of thinking. “Similarly, I have met many who believe that you have to have a special mindset to be a good tester. Developers, they say, are a different breed. As such, they can’t be…
It’s March, and there’s still snow on the ground here in sunny (but cold) Seattle. Here are some things I found this week worth sharing. First off – the Unity blog has a nice article on the recent Unity Quality Week Here is a sensible article on measuring productivity in organizations Kim Scott (Radical Candor)…
I had a fantastic week skiing in Whistler, BC. Heading home today, but still have a few things to share. Don’t know if I ever mentioned it on this blog, but ~4 years ago, I took the Kolbe A index. It’s yet another how-do-I-work test, but I like this one and think it’s worth checking…
Another week, another random five things I found interesting. Feedspot.com lists AB Testing in their top 10 software testing podcasts. Although it has “Testing” in the name, my 2019 goal is to get AB Testing into more Agile or Software Development podcast lists. Joel Montvelisky, who is one of the three AB Testing listeners is…
This FfF is slightly later in the day than normal due to the Seattle snow-pocalypse. I drove my daughter home from an appointment this afternoon. It was snowing, the roads were mostly wet, but it took almost 3 hours to drive twelve miles mostly because people were being stupid. Please, Seattle area readers, read this Now…
It’s the FfF travel edition In the past ten days, I’ve been in Copenhagen, Bastad (Sweden), back to Copenhagen, Montreal, and I’m currently waiting to board a flight from Minneapolis back to Seattle. I’m re-reading High Output Management by Andy Grove. So far, it’s as good as I remember. I sort of read a lot…
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…
Here are five possibly interesting articles I read this week. Other than my Xbox, the only Microsoft product I still use regularly is VS Code. While the “super secret” tips in this article aren’t necessarily that secret, they are all really cool and valuable. In a similar vein, since my only console windows are Bash…
Here are five things I found interesting this week. Ministry of Test called out my talk at TestBash in their Top Ten list of TestBash talks 2018 But something even cooler from Ministry of Test is that they’ve crowdsourced their conference abstract reviews. I’ve already reviewed a few dozen, and think it’s a fantastic idea…
Happy New Year everyone. I took some time off for the holidays, and it was glorious. While I managed to stay away from my computer most of the time, I did get a reasonable amount of Xbox and Netflix time in, so I didn’t neglect the screen in any way. But I’m back to reading…
I am going to take the rest of the year off from bullet points (and computers as much as I can) while I catch up on rest and other odds and ends. That said, here’s the final five for 2018. A huge, HUGE shoutout to heytaco – they have a fun “reward” system for slack…
What a difference a decade makes. Amazon tells me that Dec. 10, 2008, is the release day of How We Test Software at Microsoft. Before I reflect on the content, take a look at this photo from the back cover: Or this one from a few months later at Barnes & Noble: I’ve aged (at…