I 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 MoreGiveaways from Agile Testing Days
In the delightful keynote “Insights from Happy Change Agents” from Fanny Pittack and Alex Schwarz, I learned a new way to share information with others. Rather than providing a recipe for success, or even a takeaway, we can offer “giveaways”. I shall offer you some giveaways that I received at Agile Testing Days. Sunday I […]
Read MoreMore Agile Testing Days Joy (part 2 of 2)
Here’s more on what I observed and learned during Agile Testing Days. I’m just going to brain dump the rest here, because otherwise I’ll never get it posted! Lean Coffee Janet and I had a great turnout for Lean Coffee all three mornings, despite the early hour. We averaged 20 – 25 people squeezed into […]
Read MoreCommunity, Connecting, Learning
During 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 MoreLearning and Change
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 MoreAloha from the Big Island!
Learning is good, whether in your career, or when you’re having fun! We tried standup paddle boarding last year in Oahu, and loved it, but we knew our technique was bad. In Kailua, the Hypr board rental folks gave us a really helpful lesson in SUP plus pointers on the second day. We paddle boarded […]
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