More Agile Testing Days Joy (part 2 of 2)

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Here’s more on what I observed and learned during Agile Testing Days. I’m just going to brain dump the rest here, because otherwise I’ll never get it posted! Lean Coffee Janet and I had a great turnout for Lean Coffee all three mornings, despite the early hour. We averaged 20 – 25 people squeezed into […]

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Agile Testing Days, part 1 of ?: Brainstorming!

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After consolidating my notes and photos from Agile Testing Days (so many devices! Plus sketch notes!), I realized it’s way too much for one post. I’m taking the advice of tweeps and serializing this novel. First up: the workshop I facilitated on Advanced Topics in Agile Testing. I must emphasize that I was only a […]

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Women in Tech

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InformIT’s Women in Technology Resource Center is a great place to go read about inspiring women in tech. I’m proud that they are including an interview with me about my long career in software development. We’re starting to see the trend of women abandoning IT reversing. I hope efforts like informIT’s will help encourage women […]

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Learning and Change

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Atul Gawande, author of influential books such as The Checklist Manifesto and Better, writes a column “The Annals of Medicine” in the New Yorker magazine. This week’s issue has an article titled “Slow Ideas”. In it, Gawande explores why some innovations, such as surgical anesthesia, caught on quickly, while others, such as  antiseptics, take many […]

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