Five Blogs – 31 May 2012

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

Looking for Trouble in Big Data
Written by: James Lyndsay

What Medieval Castles Can Teach You About Web Security
Written by: Matt Heusser

Comparing love to eight – A response to a blogpost
Written by: Pekka Marjamäki

Paradigm Shift in Cost Structure and its Risk in Public Cloud Environments
Written by: Daniel Kaar

Retrospectives – Wronger and Righter
Written by: Bob Marshall

EXTRA:

“Avoiding Silos in Your Whole Team Kanban” SFAgile2012 preview…
Written by: Adam Yuret

Quote of the day:
“There’s time enough, but none to spare.” -Charles W. Chesnutt

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Five Blogs – 30 May 2012

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Is testing a skill?
Written by: Darkage

Confidence and Uncertainty
Written by: Iain McCowatt

What makes you less interchangeable?
Written by: Rob Lambert

The Part-Time Agile Coach: no, it’s not crazy
Written by: J. B. Rainsberger

How to Motivate Employees? The Best Answer Ever
Written by: Jeff Haden

Quote of the day:
“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.” -William Bryan

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Five Blogs – 29 May 2012

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Great Example of Exploratory Testing Session notes
Written by: Paul Carvalho

Testing Google’s ‘Drunk E-Mail’ Protector
Written by: Claire Suddath

Drive out fear
Written by: John Wenger

Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk
Written by: Alex Knapp

It’s a Bug!
Written by: Brian Gerhardt

EXTRA:

Time to Dig in and Get It Done
Written by: Ali Luke

Quote of the day:
“Energy and persistence conquer all thing.” -Benjamin Franklin

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Five Blogs – 28 May 2012

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8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture
Written by: Paul Alofs

Focus
Written by: Bob Marshall

Make Sure You Learn Something Today
Written by: Craig Jarrow

Blog Post #600
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

On Missing the Mark or What Bagpipe Bands Taught Me About Software Testing
Written by: Pete Walen

Quote of the day:
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” -Lao Tzu

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Five Blogs – 27 May 2012

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Test improvement in Agile/Scrum
Written by: Jeroen Mengerink

Brent’s Favorite Bug
Written by: humbugreality

Fast Shortest Path Analysis for Large Graphs using a CLR Stored Procedure
Written by: James D. McCaffrey

The Secret of Finishing What You Start
Written by: Craig Jarrow

Lets Test Keynote: Michael Bolton – If It’s Not Context-Driven, You Can’t Do It Here
Written by: Duncan Nisbet

Quote of the day:
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” -Richard Steele

Five Blogs – 26 May 2012

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End to End Software Development Traceability with Mind Maps
Written by: Nolan MacAfee

User Acceptance Tricks?
Written by: Iain McCowatt

We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Best at argument != Best ideas
Written by: Esther Derby

A Good Manager is Not Necessarily a Good Leader
Written by: Ron Karr

EXTRA:

Use SCRUM for your testing
Written by: Jesper Lindholt Ottosen

Quote of the day:
“Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.” -Heinrich Heine

Five Blogs – 25 May 2012

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How to Use Mind Maps to Build Better Content
Written by: Jessica Sanders

What is Exploratory Testing?
Written by: Paul Carvalho

Testing Sucks. I hate Testing.
Written by: Rob Lambert

Security Testing – 1.0
Written by: Sunil Kumar

The curse of free cloud services: a cautionary tale
Written by: David Gewirtz

EXTRA:

The pursuit of protection: How much testing is “enough”?
Written by: Jim Bird

Quote of the day:
“There is no security on earth, there is only opportunity.” -Douglas MacArthur

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Five Blogs – 24 May 2012

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If You Don’t Really Want A Career In Software Testing – Stay Out!
Written by: Joe Strazzere

Agility and Mindfulness – You Need Both
Written by: Mary Jo Asmus

Industry Watch: Testing culture undergoes dramatic shift
Written by: David Rubinstein

8 Ways to Create Great Meetings
Written by: Dan Rockwell

What Happens in Vegas — Part II
Written by: Matt Heusser

Quote of the day:
“Impossible is not a fact. Its an opinion.” -Muhammad Ali

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Five Blogs – 23 May 2012

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Convention and Enforcement
Written by: Catherine Powell

On Testing, Crossing the Rubicon or Nailing the Thesis to the Door
Written by: Pete Walen

Automation and the Observer Effect, or Why I Manually Test My Installers
Written by: Adam Knight

Peace Of Mind Without Detailed Test Cases
Written by: Eric Jacobson

Physics, Testing and Academia
Written by: Petteri Lyytinen

EXTRA:

Test Automation
Written by: Zach Fisher

Quote of the day:
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

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Five Blogs – 22 May 2012

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The Skeptical Tester
Written by: Fiona Charles

Porridge is bad for you!
Written by: Pekka Marjamäki

The Case Against Agile: Ten Perennial Management Objections
Written by: Steve Denning

Scrum, Kanban, The Marshall Model, Rightshifting, The Synergistic Mindset & Stoos
Written by: Kurt Häusler

How to Make the Most Out of a Conference
Written by: Thea Easterby

Quote of the day:
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” -Henry Longfellow

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