The Braidy TesterHelping your team reach their full potentialMission Control- May 28, 2008 Do you know what your mission is Some of you may be saying "To boundary test Feature X". Some may be describing what you came into this lifetime to do. Others of you may be immersed in the process of defining your mission. And yet others may believe you do not have a mission at all. For a long time I was in the "I have a mission" camp. Then came a time when I realized that my work had become actual work rather than the playtime it used to be. One technique I used to get back to enjoying my job..http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/archive/2008/05/28/MissionControl.aspx CASTing For Participants, Part 2- May 25, 2008 Some months ago I posted about CAST 2008, how it's not your typical conference, how gobs of Smart Testers will be attending, and how you probably should attend too. The program is up now, and it's a doozy! Jerry Weinberg is presenting the opening keynote and also an all-day tutorial on communication and interaction models. Cem Kaner is keynoting about why testing checklists can be helpful even though test scripts often aren't. Michael Bolton, Jonathan Kohl, Scott Barber, and several other..http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/archive/2008/05/25/CASTingForParticipantsPart2.aspx Perfectly Solid Learning- May 7, 2008 A few weeks ago I took Jerry Weinberg's Problem Solving Leadership (PSL) workshop. Everyone I have heard speak about PSL calls it a life changing experience. I understood Jerry's book Becoming A Technical Leader to be a sort of offline version of PSL. (Turns out it is and it isn't. Although each covers some of the same ground as the other, neither is a replacement for the other.) The only other thing I knew about PSL, whose details seemed to be a mysterious secret, was that I had a deeply felt..http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/archive/2008/05/07/PerfectlySolidLearning.aspx |