Good conferences generally receive far more worthy session proposals than they can cram into their program. I know it hurts to have a proposal rejected. I went through many iterations of that early in my presenting career. Spending hours of time and effort on a well-crafted proposal, only to have it rejected, makes one want […]
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I’ve written a lot about pairing over the years, most recently about strong-style pairing with others on my team. Pairing is an excellent way to transfer skills, it offers a lot of advantages for overcoming cognitive biases when testing, and it’s just plain fun. For most of the 4.5 years I’ve been on my current […]
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The product owner role in agile delivery teams has been one of the least understood and even most criticized. How can one person represent all the business stakeholders, customers and end users? But if we don’t have a product owner, who gets agreement from all the different perspectives and brings the advance clarity we need […]
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Recently I did a short webinar with Agile Testing Days “AgileTD Mondays” series on “Transferring Testing Skills to the Whole Team. It’s about 20 minutes long, I hope it will inspire you to spread some testing love around your agile team! How do you help non-testers on the team learn testing skills? I’d love to […]
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After being our delightful host and emcee all week, Mike Sutton finally got to do what he originally came to Potsdam to do – give his keynote on the power of Communities of Practice in testing. I’d never thought of what those words mean – a community, yes, but also practice. Where can we learn? […]
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Conference day 3 got off to a rousing start with Jessica DaVita: “I like to go fast and break things”. I think she was referring both to her passion for Moto GP and for software delivery. I liked her observation about a “wall of confusion” between Dev – “Change!” and Ops – “Stability!” Safety matters, […]
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