Please join me at Belgium Testing Days!

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I’m doing a day-long tutorial on “Changing your testing mindset“, and an “interactive session” at Belgium Testing Days in Bruges, Belgium, March 17 – 20. You can learn more about my tutorial (and see my adorable donkeys) in my introductory video. What could be more wonderful than being in beautiful Bruges? Why, meeting up with […]

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Codemash: Advanced Topics in Agile Testing Workshop

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Thanks to the participants in today’s workshop! We tackled quite a few tough testing-related issues that many agile teams encounter. The slides, pictures of all the outcomes such as topics, impact maps and brainwriting pages, are available here. After each table group identified their most burning testing issues, they created SMART goals for each one […]

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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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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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