What’s the difference between testing and quality management? Over the past few years, I’ve been thinking about quality and what it means. I’ve done a few talks on it and engaged in several conversations with different people. Recently a LinkedIn conversation sparked my thoughts in a different direction – about the relationship between testing and […]
preventing defects, quality, testing
The following quote came from James Clear in his January 2020 newsletter (https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1). “Reading is like a software update for your brain. Whenever you learn a new concept or idea, the ‘software’ improves. You download new features and fix old bugs.” He says your past is fixed, but your interpretation of it can change depending on the […]
fail fast, learn fast, learning, perspective
In a class I taught in Copenhagen, we had a discussion about limiting work in progress and concentrating on getting each story to “Done” before taking on more work. Later, as I was going through security at the Copenhagen airport and going through passport control, I was reminded why small batches are so important. Picture […]
Done, limit work in progress, priorities, WIP limits
I wrote a blog post back in 2016 with the same title. A different event inspired me to write about the same idea and I think it bears repeating. Last week, I was at a client site in California – the state that prides itself on being eco-friendly. By the door (on the way out […]
communication, quality, responsibility, whole team
A term I use quite a bit when I’m teaching a class is ‘artificial constraints’ – those barriers we put up in our head that are non-existent. For example, sometimes I walk into a class and the table for my ‘stuff’ is in the wrong place and I walk around it for an hour before […]
artificial constraints
Paul Seaman (from Australia and @beaglesays on twitter) took me up on my offer to chat and we ended up having a great discussion about tasks and columns on a story board among many other things. I learned a little, and he took away some ideas that he wants to try with his team – a win-win in my books.
communication, story board, testing tasksThis morning I received notification that a friend had passed away. Many remember him as a shaker and a doer in the agile community. He was that, but he did it quietly. He made changes without a lot of fanfare. He told stories – many of them starting when he was doing his rock star […]
In More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Lisa Crispin and I talked about the idea of DevOps and testing. We tried to use the term to show there are DevOps activities – activities that contribute to the wholeness of the product, much like testing activities and coding and other development activities.
delivery team, DevOps, testing activities
For several years now, I have been tweeting or mentioning in conversations that I don’t like the term ‘shift-left’, and keep saying that I have to write a blog post on it.
holistic testing, shift-left, testing continuously
The Importance of Real-time Collaboration I have spoken so many times about the importance of collaborating, and yet I still fall into the same trap that so many others do. How can that happen? Aren’t I supposed to be a pro? Here’s my story. I’m working on a product where we are in four locations. […]
collaboration, defects, distributed teams