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

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

November 30, 2021 / Lisa Crispin / cognitive bias, conferences, culture, diversity, inclusion, inclusiveness, sustainability, Uncategorized, unconscious bias / No Comments

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 […]

DeliveryConf 2020

February 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, continuous delivery, continuous integration, DevOps, DevTestOps, diversity, inclusiveness, learning for testers, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

I attended DeliveryConf 2020 in Seattle in January. I had high expectations, given the speaker lineup. It far exceeded my expectations! I took lots of sketch notes and plan to blog more about the many insights I learned. Meanwhile, you can see the presentations, AND listen to the valuable facilitated group discussions with members of […]

Tina Toucan provided extra diversity and fun!

Diversity in conference speakers == new ideas, more learning

August 15, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, continual improvement, diversity, inclusion, learning for testers, Uncategorized, women in agile / 2 Comments

I attended my first testing conference back in the early 90s. I can only remember one woman speaker, and she made such an impact on me, I still remember the session well – it was about how to test requirements. I have used those ideas ever since! Thanks in large part (in my opinion, anyway) […]

Tester's Island Discs from https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/

My Tester’s Island Discs!

January 5, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, conferences, diversity, donkeys, fun, podcasts, Whole Team Approach, women in agile / No Comments

As soon as I heard the introductory episode to Neil Studd’s Tester’s Island Discs podcast, I sent in my five song selections. I didn’t expect to be picked, but it was really fun to think of the five tunes I’d take to the Tester’s Island! I’ve listened to every episode, and have learned a lot […]

Anne-Marie Charret kicks off the Women and Allies event

Agile Testing Days – More Unicorns!

December 16, 2017 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, conferences, DevOps, diversity, inclusion, Uncategorized, women in agile / 2 Comments

Day 3 of Agile Testing Days kicked off as usual with the 7 am walk/run (I walked!) to Sans Souci, followed by another excellent and well-attended Lean Coffee. This is already my third post about Agile Testing Days, so I’m going to try to stick to a few highlights! Don’t be a template zombie David […]

More ideas for making conferences inclusive!

November 24, 2017 / Lisa Crispin / community, conferences, diversity, inclusion, Lean Coffee, learning for testers, Uncategorized / 2 Comments

Thanks to everyone who posted ideas on ways conferences can be more inclusive of newcomers and avoid the perception of having “cliques” of speakers and veteran attendees, in response to my post. I’d like to share some of them here. Liz Keogh‘s keynotes and workshops are always so inspiring and helpful to me. A few […]