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Agile Demands a Holistic View of Testing and AutomationIs your team struggling to transform your traditional testing methods, techniques, and tools in the context of an agile culture? The accountability for the right level of quality delivered at the right time belongs to the collective team. It's important to make decisions together about what value means. | 
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Want to Be More Influential at Work? Just SmileStudies show smiling at work can make you seem much more like someone others can trust, rather than a grouch who will give them a hard time. Plus, smiling at people makes them want to smile back, so smiling and being cheerful can help you in interactions involving negotiation, persuasion, and collaboration. | 
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Finding a Middle Ground between Exploratory Testing and Total AutomationThe automator wants to get rid of human exploration—they want a robot to cut down a forest and stack the wood. The explorer, on the other hand, sees tools more like a chainsaw—they allow humans to go ten times faster, but a human is still driving the process. Finding a middle ground is the best test strategy. | 
Matt Heusser |
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Language Differences and the Challenge of CommunicationMiscommunication happens all the time in our collocated teams, so you can imagine how much it happens when we communicate across international boundaries with people for whom English is not a first language. By understanding language differences, you'll have a better chance of communicating effectively. |
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The Merits of a Collaborative Manual and Automation Test TeamIn many organizations, the manual and automated test teams are separate. But the most successful test teams integrate manual and automation resources into a single, cohesive team. This allows them to fill in any gaps in the test case steps and to develop a more informed automation strategy. | 
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When It Comes to DevOps, You Have to Start Small It’s never easy instituing a new methodology or practice into your team. If you want DevOps to be a major focus in order to improve communication and collaboration between development and operations, you can’t just make that happen with the wave of a wand and a couple of key buzzwords. |
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Navigating the Culture of Global OrganizationsMany companies have very strong cultures and expect employees to embrace their values and view of the world. That can be difficult enough in familiar cultures, but in today's connected world, you may interact with colleagues all over the globe. Understanding their norms and communication styles is essential. | 
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How Innovation Really HappensWe tend to seek out creative ideas that will result in innovation, thinking that will bring about success. But popular theories of how innovation happens are actually wrong; more work is required than some think. There is more to innovation than just great ideas—and there is more to success than innovation. | 
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