I’m well over the one-year mark in writing these weekly posts. I’ve enjoyed doing them, but pleasantly surprised on the positive feedback. In fact… Rainforest QA said that this blog was one of the top 6 QA blogs to read in 2019. I better step up my game and see if I can fulfill that…
Once again – here are five things I found worth sharing this week. Steve Denning investigates The Hidden Heart Of 21st-Century Management Dawid Dylowicz wrote a fine blog post on what it’s like Joining A Startup As The First QA I’m sure you’re all aware of the recent malicious dependency issue that was blazing the internet. If…
Here are some of the interesting things that passed my way this week. I thought this article from Hotjar on “The 10 lessons we learned launching (& killing) our $200K mobile app” was a really interesting read (thanks Perze). The learning here align quite well with Modern Testing I’d think this article about the making…
I think I’m at about a year of this experiment of sharing 5 things I found interesting every week. I still like it, and hope you have found at least a few interesting links here over the past year. I’ve been reading Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (I’m also reading…
Well, that First is that I love it when people share music with me. One of my team members introduced me to mouse on the keys, and I am enjoying their music so far. One of my favorites is ‘spectres de mouse‘ (Spotify link) The New York Times built a nice visualization of election results – quick and simple…
I’m getting to a stage in my career where I’m beginning to realize that some of my biggest growth happens when I’m doing nothing but thinking. But, I did leave my head a few times this week and found a few interesting things to share. Quote I’m thinking about: “A creative man is motivated by…
Greg Paciga talks about demoing things that aren’t done – or that don’t work. He’s right – but what’s weird is the heat he took for saying that on twitter Mike Cohn (of the automation pyramid fame) asks Three Questions to Determine if Your Organization is Agile Yet another really nice article from Jeff Nyman on hiring…
I’m preparing for some meetings with some colleagues in Europe next week and I’m a little frazzled. But this is what my frazzled brain liked this week. I’ve been thinking / talking a lot about culture recently. This quote from Radical Candor (which I just read for the third time) seemed relevant.“The most amazing thing…
Another Friday, another week with cool things to share. I’m happily working through Steven Johnson’s newest book, Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most. I’m a massive Steven Johnson fan, and this book is stories and insights about decision making – but not quick decisions like in Blink (Gladwell) or Decisive (Heath…
Here are a few (five, actually) things I saw this week and liked. This quote from Jim Whitehurst is good leadership advice. “People working in today’s information-rich, dynamic contexts don’t need leaders who think they know everything about prescribing the “best” paths forward. They need leaders who help them sit more comfortably (and sleep more…
Here are a few of the things I found interesting this week. I thought this article about “hacking” British Airways was sort of interesting – but mainly that they glossed over the real hack – “It is likely that the hackers had access to the BA.com site, and modified the code to insert a backdoor.” Read…
I had this weird empty feeling all afternoon, and it just hit me. I (almost) forgot to post my five interesting finds from the week. Steve Blank wonders if a company can succeed using the antithesis of the lean startup. I’ve talked about the big list of naughty strings here before. Now, there’s a node…
Here’s stuff I found interesting. Some of it published recently – some is not. I posted earlier this week about painful observations of “stand-ups” turning into horrible status sentences. Seth Eliot pointed me to this great post by Henrik Kniberg that covers my peeve better than I did. I’ve been reading Option B by Sheryl Sandberg…
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…
Friday snuck up on me, but the interesting links and thoughts kept coming. I hope you find something of interest here. I’ve been re-reading (re-re-reading?) Radical Candor, and this line poked me enough to write down. If you’re a people manager – or even if you just value relationships, it’s something to keep in mind.“Make…
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…
I mentioned this on twitter, but it’s worth calling out here directly as well. I will be talking about modern testing (and giving a workshop on web testing tools) at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in early October, 2018 (full details on the PNSQC site). This isn’t my first time to PNSQC – I…
Yet another view into what I found and liked this week. I’ve been a fan of singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding (nee Wesley Stace) for a few decades (he played at my 40th birthday party!). He did a remake of his own song (Scared of Guns) for an Appleseed compilation – which you can hear here….
This is my third post on TestProject. The previous posts are Getting Started with Test Project and Experimenting with Mobile Automation. The last thing I wanted to explore a bit with TestProject is directly writing some code for some (potentially) more advanced testing. Currently, the TestProject SDK supports Java, but SDKs for JavaScript, Python, C#, and Groovy are…
I made a quick trip to Iceland this week, where I still had time to come across a few interesting things to share. First off, today is the last day for early bird pricing for PNSQC – which will be the last conference I present at for a while. It’s a great conference, and if…