I joined the Pivotal Tracker team as a tester on August 13. I felt so lucky to get on board there, it’s a wonderful team, and Pivotal Labs has an amazing culture. But in spite of having amazing helpful teammates, I struggled to get to a point where I felt like I was contributing. Every […]
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What do your customers really want?
My latest StickyMinds article includes links to a lot of ideas for helping customers figure out what software they really want. What do you do to help ensure desirable outcomes from delivered software?
Read MoreApplying the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to the Whole-Team Approach
At San Francisco Agile 2012, I had the good fortune to pair up with Matt Barcomb for a session about growing the Whole-Team approach. Matt found ways to apply the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to help teams understand the various stages of growth as a team which commits to delivering high-quality software learns ways […]
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I had the good fortune to participate in the SF Agile 2012 conference the first week in June. What a diverse group of highly experienced, creative, thoughtful and kind people from many areas of software development, lean startup and beyond! I don’t have time right now to write about even 1/10 of the inspiration ignited […]
Read MoreLearning for Testers at Belgium Testing Days
I’ve been writing a lot on SearchSoftwareQuality and Techwell (aka Stickyminds) lately, no time to blog. I have lots to say so I hope I have blogging time soon! I’ll start by reporting back from Belgium Testing Days. There is so much goodness to report from last week’s Belgium Testing Days! I’ll be writing all […]
Read MoreA Product Owner’s Perspective
I had the opportunity to talk with Gil Zilberfeld, product owner with Typemock, a software company whose products are designed to help developers with their unit testing. I don’t often get to talk to product owners, and I was interested in his views on testing and quality. (Disclaimer: I have no experience with using Typemock’s […]
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