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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.

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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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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Ditch the Requirements - Focus on the Customer Instead

Thursday February 10th 2011 10am Rated 6 4 Comments Best Practices End to End Development Project Management Quality Assurance Requirements Agile Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
Quality can be defined as meeting the customers' needs. Juran posted this definition in 1988, defining quality as "fitness for use". Testers like this definition as it gives them a "north star" to guide their actions and it reinforces a role that most testers relish, that of customer advocate. However Crosby's older definition of quality as "conformance to requirements" still holds strong sway, and many test processes are guided by test cases correlated directly to requirements.

Productivity Killer: Sociopaths in the Organization

Monday April 4th 2011 12pm Rated 5 3 Comments Software Testing Test and QA Performance Process Project Management Quality Assurance
Matt continues his series on productivity killers by taking on a serious problem ... that nobody talks about

Testers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Friday February 4th 2011 5am Rated 5 3 Comments Acceptance Best Practices Testing Software Quality Assurance Project Management Web Unit
Many people with an ASD – particularly those with Asperger syndrome – have a variety of sometimes exceptional skills that enable them to thrive in roles. An area of proven success is that of software tester.
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Three Project Tips

Monday July 25th 2011 10am Rated 3 3 Comments Testing Software Project Management Quality Assurance Agile Security
Where Matt discussed three different dynamics on software projects -- and what to do about them

Post Agile Scrum

Tuesday January 15th 2008 1pm Rated 0 3 Comments Agile Management Project Management
I've been following the LeanAgileScrum discussion on to Agile Project Management list with some interest.

The Secret Skill – How to Sell Testing

Tuesday August 23rd 2011 12am Rated 4 2 Comments Testing Performance Management Services Development Software Project Management Technology User Training
We’ve all had that after meeting discussion with ourselves of, “I thought I explained that point clearly to them. I couldn’t get them to buy-in to what I was talking about. Why don’t they see my point, they just don’t get it.” Sound familiar? It wasn’t that they didn’t get it; it was a problem with how you sold it. You didn’t know about the secret skill.
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What is Concurrent Testing?

Thursday July 28th 2011 10am Rated 4 2 Comments Testing Management Best Practices Quality Assurance Software Project Management Tools
In these days of web based computing, it is possible that the computer (server) may be simultaneously serving thousands of clients with thousands of processes in execution. In such a scenario, it is possible that the CPU may enter into a dead-lock situation.

Lessons Learned in Data Migration

Thursday June 16th 2011 10am Rated 3 2 Comments Best Practices Process Project Management End to End
When I began working on a data migration project last year, I did not have much idea as to what it could entail. I did not have much experience with data migration apart from having some theoretical knowledge of what one should consider for testing such a project scope.
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5 Gems For a Tester to Groom in Professional Life

Thursday February 24th 2011 12pm Rated 3 2 Comments Career Testing Video Management Quality Assurance Software Project Management
A testing career, like any other career, can sometimes turn into a long journey before career satisfaction is obtained. In order to shorten the path to career satisfaction and give testers an edge over their peers, testers need to adopt five gems. These five gems not only help in career growth but also help to give you a strong belief in your capabilities.

Case study of the Resource Ordering & Status System (ROSS) Project

Monday December 20th 2010 9am Rated 3 2 Comments ST&QA Magazine Project Management Management Development Acceptance Integration Unit User
I started on the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) project in August, 2005 at one of the largest government contractors in the United States. The U.S. government uses ROSS to order and status resources for numerous types of incidents, mainly wildfires.
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The Importance of Organizational Maturity

Monday October 11th 2010 12am Rated 3 2 Comments Performance Quality Assurance Management Development Software Project Management
Those organizations that don’t effectively mature over time are relegated to product mediocrity, poor market share and ultimately their demise.
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IT Projects; It’s The People...

Monday March 7th 2011 2pm Rated 2 2 Comments Project Management
People management skills are truly underappreciated but they can make all the difference in the world between the success or failure of a project.
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Writing Programs to Test Programs

Monday June 14th 2010 4pm Rated 9 1 Comment Automation Best Practices Development Exploratory Functional Project Management Quality Assurance Regression Technology Testing Test and QA How To
.If your current testing is more exploratory than declaratory, you are going to dig yourself a deeper hole by trying to turn it into software. Discover the difference between automating the execution of a test and trying to automate the tester.

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.

Agile Testing Notes

Thursday July 29th 2010 10am Rated 2 1 Comment Testing Agile Teams Project Management Automation Metrics Software Unit User Error Handling Training offshore Tools
On a quest to understand how agile projects are successful, I encountered several interesting scenarios and insight into how the overall project is executed. But to my dismay, I almost always find that the information on Agile Testing itself, is quite generic (not talking Automation or Unit testing here). WHY SO?

The Price of Right

Thursday May 19th 2011 11pm Rated 1 1 Comment Project Management
While being right is personally satisfying, it benefits only one person you! No one else cares if you are right or not unless it impacts their wallet or seriously changes something important to them.
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Agile Shark Jumpin' - IV

Wednesday December 20th 2006 1pm Rated 0 1 Comment Agile Management Project Management Unit
I turns out that my Collegue, Jim Brosseau has been going through some of the same issues that I have.
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