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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Aloha from the Big Island!

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Learning is good, whether in your career, or when you’re having fun! We tried standup paddle boarding last year in Oahu, and loved it, but we knew our technique was bad. In Kailua, the Hypr board rental folks gave us a really helpful lesson in SUP plus pointers on the second day. We paddle boarded […]

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The Whole Team Approach in Practice

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I’ve just been struggling with a title for this post. Some of my ideas were: “Visibility Taken to New Heights”, “Yes, There Are Teams Who Do This Just Like In the Books”, “A Real Commitment to Continual Improvement”, “Inspiration”, but none of them really capture my amazement at what I saw visiting the team at […]

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Belgium Testing Days: A Look at a European Conference

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I wrote up my experiences at the excellent Belgium Testing Days conference which took place in February. In particular, I thought about what is different for me at conferences outside the U.S. compared with “domestic” conferences. They’re all great learning and networking opportunities, but culture makes for some nice differences. Overall it was a wonderful […]

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