Updates and things

At a recent internal forum, I hosted a panel discussion comprised of “senior” level testers at Microsoft. The panel was evenly split between managers and non-managers and we took random questions from the audience on career paths in test. The testers in the panel had experience ranging from 11 to 24 years in test. Some…

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…

I’ve started (finally) working from different rooms in my house this past week. I’ve found that this is very confusing for the dog, but I think she’ll be ok. Here are some things I found this week that may be interesting. Believe it or not, I found an article on Scrum that I actually liked….

Oh hey – I skipped a week. I decided almost last minute to walk the Wonderland Trail again this year. Here’s an obligatory trail pic before I get into the internet news that’s crossed my path. I’m all out of vacation days, so I’ll be back next week with more.

I just finished a talk at QAI Testrek on using personas. Again, I do a horrible job evaluating how my own talks go, but people asked a lot of good questions at the end, and I didn’t swear too many times, so I’ll call it a success. The gist of the talk is that creating…

In early January, I’ll hit my 19 year anniversary of working at Microsoft (I’ve worked for Microsoft 18.5 years, and as a vendor at Microsoft for the first 5 months or so). There’s been a lot of change over the years, but perhaps never as much as is going on right now. We’re getting a…