Learning how to be an ally to non-binary folk

Bruce (the legend) onstage at ATD

This is my third post sharing my biggest takeaways from Agile Testing Days. OK, I’m pretty slow, and, I hope my learning might inspire someone else’s. I first got to know Bruce (the legend) on social media and via Ministry of Testing. She was an amazing host for an online TestBash. Bruce makes awesome videos […]

The beauty of constraints

The jam study showed that we like more choices, but we decide faster with fewer choices

This is my second post to share some of my big “aha moments” at Agile Testing Days. João Proença’s keynote really opened my eyes and explained a lot of what I have experienced, but not really understood! I’ve found techniques such as risk storming and time-boxed exploratory testing charters to be reliably effective. I hadn’t […]

Agile Testing Days 2021 – 1 of ? – Asking new questions

Eckstein's Law: An organization produces a design that reflects the organization's biases.

I haven’t made time to blog here much this year because of pair blogging with Janet Gregory on AgileTestingFellow.com, along with other writing commitments. I want to write about some of my Agile Testing Days 2021 takeaways, to reflect on them and reinforce them in my own head. So here goes. Might be the only […]

New Challenges in Continuous Delivery

Continuous Deployment Pipeline

Continuous delivery and deployment (both abbreviated as “CD”) aren’t new concepts. Jez Humble and David Farley published their Continuous Delivery book ten years ago. Patrick Debois organized the first “DevOpsDays” conference in 2009, and created the #DevOps (also written as devops, devOps and Devops) hashtag. Of course, CD is new to many teams. There are […]