Recent Articles
Article by Randall W. Rice |
Feb 20 2012 - 8:30am You can’t force a garden to grow, and you can’t force new processes to work. However, like the gardener who prepares and maintains a garden for optimal plant growth, you can use a planned, organic approach to lead your processes more successfully. Read More
Article by Brian Bozzuto |
Feb 16 2012 - 12:30pm Training people and introducing new ideas requires more than just clear factual explanations or theorems. In this two-part series, Brian Bozzuto explores how games, simulations, and other similar exercises play an instrumental role in helping people be comfortable enough with new ideas that they choose to put them into practice. Read More
Article by Laura Brandenburg |
Feb 15 2012 - 12:00am Often we spend too much time analyzing or agonizing about where to go in our careers and too little time moving forward. This article provides a few practical tips to break out of career analysis paralysis and start taking the steps that will build forward momentum behind your career. Read More
Article by Lee Copeland |
Feb 15 2012 - 12:00am There is definite asymmetry between building trust and destroying trust. While building trust can be complex and time-consuming, destroying trust can be done in one simple instant. Read More
Article by Matt Heusser |
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Feb 13 2012 - 8:00am Between cloud computing, crowd-sourced testing, and even the recent claim that "test is dead," what's a boutique tester to do? Matthew Heusser offers his thoughts. Read More
Article by Jonathan Vanian |
Feb 9 2012 - 12:54pm A conversation between online editor Jonathan Vanian and agile coach David Hussman, founder of Dev Jam. Read More
Article by Brian Bozzuto |
Feb 8 2012 - 12:17pm Training people and introducing new ideas requires more than just clear factual explanations or theorems. In this two-part series, Brian Bozzuto explores how games, simulations, and other similar exercises play an instrumental role in helping people be comfortable enough with new ideas that they choose to put them into practice. Read More
Article by Michael Bolton |
Feb 8 2012 - 9:00am The testing craft is sometimes fascinated with high-tech, expensive tools that are intended to help managers keep up to date on what's going on. Yet, sometimes heavyweight tools aren't necessary. Michael Bolton describes how Paul Holland, a senior test manager, uses a decidedly low-tech approach to track and illustrate the testing story. Read More
Article by Clinton Keith |
Feb 7 2012 - 2:45pm Many new products being developed require the contribution of artists and other such "creatives", but artists often view the creative process as an organic thing that cannot be analyzed, dissected, or reduced to a set of defined practices without killing it. This article explores barriers such as these to the introduction of agile methods and how these barriers can be overcome. Read More
Article by Lisa Crispin |
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Feb 6 2012 - 8:30am Test automation can turn into a real pain in the neck if a designated team is in charge of it or if the automators work on it as a separate project. In this article, Lisa Crispin seconds Bob Jones’s recent call for whole-team test automation and elaborates on the dangers of relegating test automation to an isolated project rather than integrating it into the overall software development process. Read More
