At Agile 2019, Bill Wake and I paired on a workshop on the Culture and Collaboration track at Agile 2019, “What testers and developers can learn from each other”. I was thrilled to be co-facilitating this with Bill, who was one of my early Extreme Programming heroes. Doing a true workshop in a 75 minute […]
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Continuing my learning journey
I’ve had such an exciting time the past year and it has led me into an amazing new opportunity, I’d like to share my learning journey so far! Modern testing and data science For the past year, I’ve been inspired by Alan Page and Brent Jensen’s A/B Testing podcast discussions of their “Modern Testing” principles. […]
Read MoreAgile Testing Days Highlights: Part 1
My dilemma – how to write about some highlights of Agile Testing Days 2016 in the small amount of time I have, without going on and on for pages and pages? I’m going to do it incrementally, and try to keep it short! This was the 8th year of ATD, and I’m lucky to have […]
Read MoreStepping out of my comfort zone
The 30 days of testing challenges are energizing me! Day 23’s challenge is to help someone test better. I’m going to combine that one with stepping out of my comfort zone on day 14 by sharing what I learned here. It may help you test better! Recently, my awesome teammate Chad Wagner and I were […]
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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.
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