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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Testing and Management mistakes: Replacing placating with blaming
Phil Kirkham suggested in the comments on my entry about Testing and Management mistakes to do a write-up on how Tim could have responded in a better fashion. Personally, I decided to show to fashion of this: the incongruent style … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Testing
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Ten Answers from a non-manager
Last week Jurgen Apello put up a list of ten questions to ask your possibly new manager during a job interview. Since I found his list of compelling, I was immediately tempted to answer the ten questions. Though I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
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Testing and Management Mistakes
This is a response to a recent blog entry from Michael Bolton. He challenges to spot as many management mistakes as possible in a short dialog excerpt between a project manager and a tester. I will quote the dialog and … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Testing
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Documentation fallacies
Today, I started off a series of documentation fallacies. Gerald M. Weinberg inspired this series. Since I didn’t have the initial inspiration quote handy at the time, I looked it up right now. As it is the initial one, I … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Testing
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Turn off the beamer
[Update] Unconsciously I added the word beamer here to mean video projector (damn Germans). This might be an occasion to show up on the Nothing for ungood blog. [/Update] As I sat today in a meeting, I noticed what the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
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Quality Software Management
Recently I finally finished the fourth volume of Jerry Weinberg‘s Quality Software Management series. As a wrap-up I decided to write a summary of what I learned and why you should read it yourself, too, if you haven’t already. Introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Testing
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The Deliberate Tester
Some while ago I started to write a tester’s novell. Heavily inspired by Elisabeth Hendrickson‘s article in the January 2010 issue of the Software Test and Performance magazine. Personally, I wanted to try myself on a tale of a tester … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Testing, Testing
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Big Test Design Up-Front
In yesterday’s European Weekend Testing session we had a discussion upcoming on whether or not to follow the given mission. The mission we gave was to generate test scenarios for a particular application. During the debriefing just one group of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Testing, Weekend Testing
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Assets of a software craftsperson
During a workshop at 8thLight Justin Martin collected assets of a software craftsperson. He published these on his apprenticeship blog, and I found the list compelling for some extensions. As I went through the list, I noticed that I included … Continue reading
Posted in Software Craftsmanship
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Theory of Constraints at lunch
Mary Poppendieck and James Bach taught me to look out for lessons in everyday life. Everything is connected with everything else. So, as I visited today during lunch break the local McDonald’s restaurant, I started to observe while waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Methodologies
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