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 […]
Read MoreYesterday I ran across Dan Billing’s post about MEWT5. An excellent and thought-provoking post, but at the end, a picture of the 14 participants showed only 1 woman. Given that testing is one of the areas of software that has a decent percentage of women, and given all the awesome women in testing I know […]
Read MoreI just received a flyer in my snail mail for yet another conference where four out of the five keynote speakers are white men and only one is a woman. Are you kidding me? And this is a testing conference. Testing is a field that does indeed have lots of women, I would guess a […]
Read MoreDuring a recent stay in San Francisco, I walked down to the Ferry Building before dawn to enjoy the beautiful sunrise over the bay. I stopped in Peet’s Coffee for tea. As I waited for it to steep, I noticed a diverse group of people gathered around one of the large wooden tables in the […]
Read MoreInformIT’s Women in Technology Resource Center is a great place to go read about inspiring women in tech. I’m proud that they are including an interview with me about my long career in software development. We’re starting to see the trend of women abandoning IT reversing. I hope efforts like informIT’s will help encourage women […]
Read MoreI’m a volunteer on the Diversity in Agile project founded by Mike Sutton and supported by the Agile Alliance. Update: Though we did these video interviews back in 2010, they’re still online, and these women are still awesome! For reasons I don’t understand, some people have misunderstood the first phase of the project, which seeks […]
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