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Naomi Karten's Blog

Naomi Karten has always been fascinated by human behavior. In this blog, she focuses on observations, thoughts, ideas, and the wisdom of others as it concerns people and how they function (or don’t), particularly in organizations.

An Obvious Bug or a Deliberate Strategy? 22 hours 27 min ago
by Naomi Karten

Naomi Karten has always been fascinated by human behavior. In this blog, she focuses on observations, thoughts, ideas, and the wisdom of others as it concerns people and how they function (or don’t), particularly in organizations.

On Deadline 2 weeks 3 days ago
by Naomi Karten

Naomi Karten has always been fascinated by human behavior. In this blog, she focuses on observations, thoughts, ideas, and the wisdom of others as it concerns people and how they function (or don’t), particularly in organizations.

Apologies, or How to Make 1 + 1 = 0 5 weeks 6 days ago
by Naomi Karten

Managing Product Development

Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk.

Pragmatic Managers Posted for Your Reading Pleasure 5 days 5 hours ago
by Johanna Rothman

Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk.

Webinar Recording Available, Last Day for Early Registration for Workshop 1 week 19 min ago
by Johanna Rothman

Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk.

Who Is Agile? A book on LeanPub 1 week 1 day ago
by Johanna Rothman

The TechWell Blog

Welcome to the TechWell Blog! Created as a way for us to engage with you. Most importantly, we want to hear your thoughts. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and questions, so we’ve enabled the ability for you to leave comments to our blog posts.

Finding Your Way: The Explorer Tester Merit Badge 2 weeks 1 day ago
by Claire Moss

Welcome to the TechWell Blog! Created as a way for us to engage with you. Most importantly, we want to hear your thoughts. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and questions, so we’ve enabled the ability for you to leave comments to our blog posts.

#TestChat for 1-24-2012 3 weeks 21 hours ago
by TechWell Admin

Welcome to the TechWell Blog! Created as a way for us to engage with you. Most importantly, we want to hear your thoughts. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and questions, so we’ve enabled the ability for you to leave comments to our blog posts.

Matt Heusser and Company Discuss "Testing is Dead" 4 weeks 5 days ago
by Jonathan Vanian

Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Agile testing tips from the co-author of Agile Testing: The Tester Role on an Agile Project

"... talented QA Engineers with automation..." 2 weeks 5 days ago
by Lisa Crispin

Agile testing tips from the co-author of Agile Testing: The Tester Role on an Agile Project

Helping the Customer Stick to the Purpose of a User Story 15 weeks 5 days ago
by Lisa Crispin

Agile testing tips from the co-author of Agile Testing: The Tester Role on an Agile Project

The Clean Coder (& Tester!) 29 weeks 3 days ago
by Lisa Crispin

Accidental Simplicity

Thoughts about agile software development, software configuration management, and the intersection between them.

Do we care whether it's Software Engineering or Craft? 4 weeks 2 days ago
by Steve Berczuk

Thoughts about agile software development, software configuration management, and the intersection between them.

Agility (and Learning Opportunities) Everywhere 5 weeks 4 days ago
by Steve Berczuk

Thoughts about agile software development, software configuration management, and the intersection between them.

Questioning before Answering 10 weeks 6 days ago
by Steve Berczuk

Tech Speak

Well known as a tester, speaker, and storyteller, Lee Copeland has also been the author of the Better Software magazine Tech Speak column for many years. This blog features some of his wisdom, insight, rants, and curiosities.

The Optimists Don't Make It Out 8 weeks 2 days ago
by Lee Copeland

Well known as a tester, speaker, and storyteller, Lee Copeland has also been the author of the Better Software magazine Tech Speak column for many years. This blog features some of his wisdom, insight, rants, and curiosities.

Goodhart’s Law 9 weeks 2 days ago
by Lee Copeland

Well known as a tester, speaker, and storyteller, Lee Copeland has also been the author of the Better Software magazine Tech Speak column for many years. This blog features some of his wisdom, insight, rants, and curiosities.

Oh, When Will They Ever Learn? 10 weeks 2 days ago
by Lee Copeland

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Mike Cohn and the Daily Standup Meeting

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Is Test Automation a “Project”?

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 Recently I read a post on a mailing list about “failed test automation projects.” This expression made me stop and think. Automating different types of tests is an integral part of software... Read More

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Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization

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 A manager took me aside at a recent engagement. “You know, Johanna, there’s something I just don’t understand about this agile thing. It sure doesn’t look like everyone is being used at 100 percent... Read More

The Boutique Tester Revisited

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 Three years ago, back when I had one of those day job things, I published a paper called "The Boutique Tester." Since that time, I've gone independent, sold testing and training services, had a... Read More

Edit Those Epics

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 I've been working with folks making their transition to agile. One of the hardest transitions is for the managers and technical leaders.Managers are accustomed to working in timeboxes. To them, the... Read More

Mark Zuckerberg and The Hacker Way

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 An excerpt about company culture from Mark Zuckerberg's letter included in Facebook's IPO filings, via ABC News:The Hacker WayAs part of building a strong company, we work hard at making Facebook the... Read More

Mozilla Developing Push Notifications

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 If you work as a developer on a website, you probably know how annoying it is to be able to successfully communicate site updates to your loyal followers. I attribute this to the limitations of the... Read More

The Clean Coder (& Tester!)

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 I just finished reading Bob Martin's The Clean Coder. I understand why he used that title, but I would have preferred something like The Software Professional or How to Really Enjoy Your Software... Read More

Load Testing With the Cloud

Everyone, it seems, is talking about the cloud. As with past hyped trends in IT, it is important to see past all the talk and look for concrete ways to take advantage of this new technology’s... Read More - Get this content

8 Common Myths About Performance Testing in Production

In today’s web environment, performance matters – a lot. And one of the best ways to ensure that your application will perform as expected is to do production performance testing. Testing your... Read More - Get the content

Automated Testing With Commerical Fuzzing Tools

An examination and review of the 6 most widely used, commercially available fuzzers. Vital information for those considering the purchase of beSTORM, Codenomicon Defensics, Appscan, Burp Suite Pro, N... Read More - Get this content

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