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The 3 A’s of a Successful Software Testing Job Interview

Tuesday August 17th 2010 11am Rated 15 7 Comments Best Practices How To Interviews Leadership Management Process Software Testing
Over the past two years, the economy has taken various tumbles and turns, and companies are doing radical things with their IT departments. Outsourcing, offshoring, and layoffs are throwing good, senior testers, back into the interview process. If a tester has had little experience with interviewing, it can be a difficult transition.
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Baselining Your Testing Team

Friday July 30th 2010 7am Rated 9 6 Comments Leadership Testing Requirements
Manager's guide on why baselining is important, how it is useful, where to set the line, and how to approach baselining your testers
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Testers Behaving Badly

Thursday September 23rd 2010 12pm Rated 19 5 Comments Leadership Management Project Management Software Testing
Written by "The Rat Pack".
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Five Ways Testers Can Leverage the Internet

Monday January 7th 3pm Rated 9 5 Comments Leadership Research STP Community News
This Blog was submitted by Phil Kirkham. Phil will become a regular Blog contributor in the future. If you want to become an STP Blogger reach out to me at Rhad@softwaretestpro.com to get started... As a Tester: Are you using the internet to improve your testing opportunities?

Manager's Toolkit: Building a Testing Organization

Thursday October 21st 2010 2pm Rated 11 4 Comments Software Testing Management Leadership Process
Step-by-step approach to re-organize, maintain or grow a previously existing testing organization.
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5 Tips for Building Trust

Thursday December 2nd 2010 10am Rated 10 4 Comments Teams Project Management Management Leadership offshore
If you are coming in to a project in a situation where trust has been violated, you may notice a few side effects. If your manager seems to be micromanaging you, ask some questions about what happened in the past. You may notice a project manager or dev manager is negative overall about testing and begrudges having testing at all.
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Are you in the right band?

Tuesday October 18th 2011 10am Rated 3 3 Comments Software Test and QA Testing Editorial Leadership
Where Matt Heusser talks about learning, improvement, and some counter-intuitive system forces that dance around it

Certifiable - II

Thursday January 4th 2007 6pm Rated 0 3 Comments Agile Leadership Software
Another post, this one to the agile-management list .

My Five Second Rule for Terms, Jargon, and Other Mythical Beasts

Tuesday May 24th 2011 12pm Rated 15 2 Comments Management Leadership Testing
The other day a young lady left me briefly speechless during my evening commute. It wasn’t because of her style and manner of dress, although it was quite theatrical. It wasn’t because of her youth and beauty, although she had both in abundance. It was not even her speech or mannerism, though I found them to be quite foreign and even a little jarring to my old ears. No, she momentarily left me at a complete loss for words because of what she said...
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Leading By Process A Roadmap to Test Management Maturity

Tuesday April 24th 2012 6am Rated 6 1 Comment Management Leadership Test and QA
Are leaders born or made? Most people believe leaders have natural characteristics that cannot be learned. Some believe that leadership is a trait you are born with. I have learned over the years that good leaders are made not born. Being a good leader is much more than just taking charge, it's a never ending process of self study, education, training and experience. Sounds familiar?
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What is 'leadership' anyway?

Tuesday March 20th 2012 5pm Rated 6 1 Comment Editorial Leadership
Where Matt talks about, well, leadership.

TWiST #68 - on Motivation

Friday October 28th 2011 6am Rated 5 1 Comment podcast Leadership Career
Where Matt Heusser meets with Jon Bach, Wade Wachs, and Michael Larsen to talk about tester motivation -- and what to do about it.
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The continuing saga of bungalow bill the tester

Tuesday December 7th 2010 11am Rated 5 1 Comment Software Testing Leadership Test and QA Process User
Matt tells a story about an early experience with testing, and what value testers can bring

Sources of (test) power - IV

Thursday October 7th 2010 7am Rated 5 1 Comment Editorial Leadership Strategy Teams Software Testing
The power of the ask

Webcast: Performance Testing Value Propositions

Monday August 9th 2010 10am Rated 4 1 Comment Performance Leadership Life Cycle Testing Test and QA Membership Software Web
Recorded webcast featuring Scott Barber now available.

More on SDETs

Thursday June 10th 2010 6am Rated 4 1 Comment Automation Editorial Future Test Leadership Testing Trends Test and QA Management Development Acceptance Software User
Matt Heusser revisits the question of "Are Testers going away?" re-introducing and refining his thoughts of the Software Development Engineer in Test, or SDET

Productivity Killer: Maslow in the Organization

Monday April 25th 2011 11am Rated 2 1 Comment Software Testing Teams Trends Project Management Leadership Jobs
Where Matt spends a minute moments writing about Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, and what it might mean for you.

Making the Case: Develop Your Defense For Test Automation

Monday January 1st 2007 8am Rated 2 1 Comment Automation Development Exploratory Leadership Testing Software Training Web offshore
In an age of shrinking budgets, you’ve got to persuade the powers-that-be that automation is a compelling priority for your organization. A softer view of ROI can help.
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Metrics Madness

Friday June 22nd 2007 2am Rated 0 1 Comment Management Metrics Leadership
A Cautionary Tale Years ago I worked for an established fortune 500 company.
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