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 […]
Read MoreLearning and Change
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 […]
Read MoreWhat have you done for you lately?
Inspired by a discussion at TestBash 2.0 Lean Coffee, I find it useful to answer the question, “What are the last three things YOU did to improve”? See my article on Stickyminds.
Read MoreLean Coffees in England!
I’ll be in Cambridge to do a workshop on advanced topics on March 19. Before the workshop, we’ll hold a Lean Coffee sponsored by Software East and open to everyone. Later that same day, I’ll be one of four speakers at the Software East meetup at RedGate software. Please join us at any and all […]
Read MoreA New Year, an Updated Website!
Tiring of the poor performance of my old site hosted on GoDaddy, and tired of being the object of ridicule for having such an old-skool-looking site (OK, only one person ridiculed me, but his opinion matters), I decided I needed to finally get into the 2010s. Thanks to Scot Rumery of Rumspeed for redesigning and […]
Read MoreMore ACCUS Games Day
This afternooon, I joined Mike Sutton’s Improv session. My takeaway: “It doesn’t hurt to collaborate”. The exercises were fun and funny, and gave insight into how teams worked together. I particularly liked that Mike used a task board to keep track of his session. We did a lot of fun exercises, and had lots of […]
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