At the XP Days Germany I attended Markus Wittwer’s session on consensus-based decision making in teams. During the session we made the decision that I should come up with a write-up of the session within the next two weeks. To fulfill my duty, here it is. You can find his presentation in German on Prezi.
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Technical and personnel leadership
XP Days Germany: Resolving resistance to change
At the XP Days Germany, Rachel Davies talked about how to resolve resistance to change. Davies said that she faces this resistance often as a coach, and what to do about it.
Continue reading XP Days Germany: Resolving resistance to changeWhat you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Automation
Continuing the series of questions from the CONQUEST 2010 conference in September, this is the last piece we’ll take a closer into. Today is on test automation.
Continue reading What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – AutomationWhat you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Doing
Continuing the series of questions from the CONQUEST 2010 conference in September, we’ll take a closer look on questions regarding actually testing software.
Continue reading What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – DoingAgile Testing Days: Alternative Paths for Self-Education in Software Testing
Last week, I attended the Agile Testing Days in Berlin. I presented on Wednesday afternoon on how to self-educate yourself in Software Testing. I uploaded the slides to slideshare.
Alternative Paths For Self Education In Software Testing Webinar from Markus Gärtner
In early September I did a webinar on the same presentation. You can access and download the webinar at the EuroSTAR pages.
The Deliberate Tester – Chapter 8 – The First Project
Rob Lambert put up the final chapter from The Deliberate Tester. In the eighth chapter, Peter’s boss asks him to get onto his first project. He immediately starts to certify everyone, … oh no, he makes some suggestions to the customer on how to test their application.
It has been quite some work to write this throughout the year, but it has been great fun. I don’t think I will extend this series soon, as I currently feel like I have to limit my work-in-progress for writing. I hope you liked this nice little story. Thanks for reading.
What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Standards & Methods
Continuing the series of questions from the CONQUEST 2010 conference two weeks back, we’ll take a closer look on questions regarding standards and methods.
What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Outsourcing
Today in the “What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance” I will answer questions from the outsourcing category. Since this is a hot topic for me, I hope not to rant too much at it, but let’s see.
Continue reading What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – OutsourcingWhat you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Agile Test Management
Continuing the What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance series, we will take a closer on Agile Test Management today. Please note that I consider the term Agile Test Management to be an oxymoron. The team is self-managing in Agile, and there is no dedicated manager role to grant the team enough power to manage itself. This surely needs lots of trust – especially when transitioning from a more traditional environment. but is essential to any team effort.
Continue reading What you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Agile Test ManagementWhat you always wanted to know about Testing and Quality Assurance – Testing as a profession
Last week I attended the CONQUEST 2010 conference. As I was invited to be part of an experts panel, I answered some questions from the conference attendees about testing, quality, and how all of this works. In particular I was invited as an expert on Agile testing. The session was voice recorded, in order for the transcript to be provided online in a few weeks. Since it will be on German and we had to restrict our answers to two minutes, I asked the organizers, Karin Vosseberg and Andreas Spillner, whether I may translate the questions to English and publish them on my blog, and got the permission to do so. So, this is the first set of questions (from the CONQUEST 2010 attendees) and answers (from myself). The first set of questions is filed under the topic “Testing as a profession”.