Recently, Melissa Fisher asked a Slack community I’m in for ideas on creating successful workshops. Community members who are highly experienced in delivering excellent training and workshops shared some excellent tips, I asked them if I could share them here too. They agreed, so here goes. Training from the back of the room Ahsley Hunsberger […]
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In our new Agile Testing Fellowship Donkeys & Dragons video chat episode, Janet Gregory switched from being co-host with me, to being a guest with Selena Delesie! We talked about assessing quality practices with their Quality Practices Assessment Model, aka QPAM. Selena and Janet explain how they came up with the model. They explain the […]
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A conference called Agile on the Beach sounds like a summer vacation! By scheduling some free time before and after the conference, I did turn it into one. A vacation where I learned a lot and picked up many new ideas! Janet Gregory and I were invited to pair on a keynote, “Weaving Quality Into […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxGgWOAKcPkThis is a joint post mostly written by Veerle! Last November, Veerle Verhagen and I delivered a workshop on Imposter syndrome at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam together. The participants came up with excellent ideas to fight imposter syndrome, which we shared in a blog post. The responses to that session were so overwhelmingly positive, […]
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Janet Gregory and I developed our new course, “Holistic Testing for Continuous Delivery: For a quality DevOps Culture”, last year. I’m teaching it remotely October 23 – 26 (note new dates!). The class will go for 3.5 hours each day, including breaks. Specific hours to be determined, based on participants’ time zones, but sometime between […]
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Why do I love software testing, and helping others find their own testing joy? The latest book we are reading in the DevOps Book Club, led by the awesome Tristan Lombard and Niranjani Manoharan, is Start with Why by Simon Sinek. Starting with “why” has always made sense to me. Gojko Adzic’s Impact Mapping was […]
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