Five Blogs – 30 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Are you a Thought Lead or a Thought Peer?
Written by: Henrik Andersson

The Nine Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
Written by: Bob Marshall

Some thoughts after attending the ‘Getting a Grip on Exploratory Testing’ workshop
Written by: Joep Schuurkes

Checklist Don’t Replace Your Brain
Written by: Oana Juncu

Performance Testing on a shoestring
Written by: Thomas Ponnet

Quote of the day:
“Failure is a detour, not a dead end street.” -Zig Ziglar

Five Blogs – 29 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Coderetreat goes testautomation
Written by: Markus Gärtner

What are Non-Obvious Systemic Constraints?
Written by: Bob Marshall

Do I want to write this?
Written by: Thomas Ponnet

Stop them or let them fail?
Written by: Marcin Floryan

10 Powerful Strategies to Build Your Confidence
Written by: Dan Rockwell

Quote of the day:
“If you want to conquer fear, dont sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie

Five Blogs – 28 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Rapid exploratory website testing …
Written by: TestSheep

Devil in the Detail I
Written by: Iain McCowatt

“Idiot Scripts”
Written by: David Greenlees

Test automation in Agile
Written by: Jeroen Mengerink

Mind The Gap: Innovation, Three Key Battlefields
Written by: Sheri Mackey

Quote of the day:
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” -Leonardo Da Vinci

Five Blogs – 27 April 2012

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Blog: All Oracles Are Heuristic
Written by: Michael Bolton

If this ain’t a bug – why does it feel so bad
Written by: Adam Knight

Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week
Written by: Geoffrey James

Devil in the Detail: Prologue
Written by: Iain McCowatt–

Building a team from the bottom up
Written by: Tom Nixon

EXTRA:

The Developer-Tester Divide
Written by: Gil Zilberfeld

Celebrate Learning, Not Success or Failure
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

Quote of the day:
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” -Auguste Rodin

Five Blogs – 26 April 2012

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I am the Queen of Defocus
Written by: Anne-Marie Charrett

4 Ways To Keep Great Ideas From Getting Stuck In The Pipeline
Written by: Gordon Hui

The Most Happiest Job … In the World?
Written by: Matt Heusser

8 Tips For Becoming a Dedicated Tester
Written by: Jamie Saine

Staying on track
Written by: Claire Moss

EXTRA:

Leaders Manage Risk
Written by: The Managers Diary

Quote of the day:
“If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” -Nora Roberts

Five Blogs – 25 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

What are the truly important things?
Written by: The New Work Order

Rethinking the Service Desk – I
Written by: Matt Heusser

Responding to Changes
Written by: Donald Gray

New Testing Ideas
Written by: Alan Page

Quality Assurance is a Process, Not a Department
Written by: Mike Brown

EXTRA:

Potential: Are YOU Reaching For It?
Written by: Sheri Mackey

Specification by Example is not Enough
Written by: Paul Gerrard

Quote of the day:
“Ask the experienced rather than the learned.” -Unknown

Five Blogs – 24 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

If there only was a TV series about Software Testers…
Written by: Joel Montvelisky

Post-Agile?
Written by: George Dinwiddie

How many organisations are failing to deliver on their Agile developments?
Written by: David Bicknell

4 Ways to an Agile Operating Model
Written by: Alex Adamopoulos

The Pen Game: Software Testing Encapsulated
Written by: Michael Larsen

EXTRA:

Pair Testing
Written by: Andy Glover

Beyond the cultural differences of international teams
Written by: Maria Ocampo

Quote of the day:
“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.” -Tennessee Williams

Five Blogs – 23 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Commoditization: Three Scenarios
Written by: Iain McCowatt

On Passion, or Be Careful What You Wish For
Written by: Pete Walen

TDD and Manually Solving Tasks
Written by: Stephan Kämper

Us And Them
Written by: Tony DaSilva

Your Company Values What?
Written by: Antony Marcano

Quote of the day:
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” -Albert Einstein

Five Blogs – 22 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

The machine society and how to cure it
Written by: Dave Nicolette

The Agile Explorer
Written by: Tobias Mayer

Leave Your Guns At Home
Written by: James Thomas

What’s wrong with the project approach to software development?
Written by: SMS Blog

Train Your Brain to Focus
Written by: Paul Hammerness and Margaret Moore

Quote of the day:
“You have to let people challenge your ideas.” -Tom Kasten

Five Blogs – 21 April 2012

The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out.

Heuristics for Understanding Heuristics
Written by: Michael Bolton

Why is Estimating so Hard?
Written by: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

Is testing the dumping grounds of IT?
Written by: Martijn de Vrieze

Agile will fail
Written by: Jeroen Mengerink

Defending Your Time Without Sounding Like a Jerk
Written by: Craig Jarrow

EXTRA:

There are no Best Practices
Written by: Mark Levison

Quote of the day:
“You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.” -Richard Bach