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Changing the Way We Test By Managing Change

Wednesday September 16th 2009 7am Rated 2 20 Comments Management Performance Software Requirements Web
The Business Case for Dynamic SQA and Test Management Featuring Forrester Analyst Margo Visitacion and MKS’s Ryan Lloyd
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... nor tolerate those among us who do

Tuesday December 8th 2009 4pm Rated 0 18 Comments Agile Management Project Management
The World Agile Qualification Board has, for a second time, plagiarized the work of Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin by cutting and pasting the outline for their book and using it as a course outline - without permission or attribution.

The Fishing Maturity Model

Thursday October 8th 2009 1pm Rated 0 12 Comments Management Web
Imagine, for a moment, you own a fishing company.

Asperger's Syndrome

Monday October 20th 2008 11pm Rated 0 12 Comments Management Software
A fried of mine recently sent me this article, with a subject like something like "An Aspie comes out of the closet.

You say goodbye, and I say hello ...

Thursday April 22nd 2010 1pm Rated 0 11 Comments Management Cloud
Well, it's been two years that Chris McMahon and I have been writing ST&Pedia.

Climbing the Career Ladder ?

Friday March 26th 2010 2pm Rated 0 10 Comments Management Research Career
I'm not a big fan of career ladders.

Test Management Tools

Wednesday September 9th 2009 12pm Rated 0 10 Comments Management Tools
Allright folks, I'll admit it.

Know Your Touch-Time as a Software Tester

Tuesday April 26th 2011 10am Rated 9 9 Comments Software Testing Quality Assurance Management
This article is a testimonial to learning by association, in which I will talk about a core Total Quality Management concept called touch-time, how it associates with software testing, and how can it help form a unique perspective to approach testing.
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Golden Rules of Testing

Tuesday May 10th 2011 11am Rated 48 8 Comments Agile Testing Process Management Automation Acceptance Integration
I've put together what I think are the golden rules of testing that still apply. So when someone says "that's not how we do it in Agile" (and believe me - they will) don't take none of it and stick with the basics.
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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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Tips on Improving Test Coverage

Monday August 9th 2010 3am Rated 9 6 Comments Testing Agile Management Automation Development Functional Process Software Strategy Software Test Professionals Conference
I guess you are familiar with the situation. Testers have finished performing all planned tests and finally there are no high priority defects left unresolved. After the celebration is over, the application goes to production. The next day some customers are already complaining that they can’t even install the product. The whole engineering organization is embarrassed. why did it work in the testing lab, but not work in the customers’ environments? how did we miss the bugs that the customers reported? The subject of this article is to answer these tough questions by using proven practical tips.
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Training Software Testers

Thursday October 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 6 Comments Forums Management Software Training
What are the essential skills and knowledge that freshman testers need in order to be successful? What should junior testers do to build their skills? How can managers best train their team?
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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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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 project heroes /actually/ bad?

Tuesday August 31st 2010 6am Rated 6 4 Comments Software Testing Test and QA Editorial Management
A little analysis around the cult of the hero and how we should respond to it
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Testing Centers of Excellence

Monday February 1st 2010 8am Rated 1 4 Comments Best Practices Management Automation Development Case Study Process Technology Certification Services Functional Integration Software Testing Unit Web offshore Tools
CA is using its global test facilities to raise the bar on product quality and time to market.
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Motivating Test Teams

Tuesday October 13th 2009 7am Rated 0 4 Comments Newsletters Management Teams
It was some years later when I was the test manager at a different company ordering sushi for an employee when it resonated with me that part of a manager’s job is taking care of people. I’m not trying to be maternal but instead practical…
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Outsourcing Confidential

Tuesday September 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 4 Comments Management Services Development Process Jobs offshore
A long-time software testing consultant shares stories from the trenches, and not all of them end well.
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New Testing Challenge - IV

Tuesday December 9th 2008 9pm Rated 0 4 Comments Management Testing
So let's see here.
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