Five Blogs – 31 October 2013

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

7 Reasons to “FEAR NOT!”
Written by: Chery Gegelman

8 Time management To-Do tips for managers
Written by: Eric Bloom

The importance of mentoring
Written by: Ian Bridgeforth

A quick way to start doing exploratory testing
Written by: John Stevenson

Quality is eating software
Written by: Ole Lensmar

Quote of the day:
“Management is a position that is granted; leadership is a status that is earned.” -K. Scott Derrick

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Five Blogs – 30 October 2013

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Reading specifications with thought
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

The Power of Intention
Written by: Annie Murphy Paul

What Are Needs?
Written by: Bob Marshall

8 Communication Barriers in Business
Written by: Frank Sonnenberg

The Right Questions Can Change Your Life
Written by: Mark Miller

EXTRA:

3 Life-Changing Habits of High Performers
Written by: Brad Sugars

Quote of the day:
“Developers who don’t want to test, are developers who don’t want to learn” -Andrea Tomasini

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Five Blogs – 29 October 2013

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How Six Thinking Hats Can Help with User Experience Testing
Written by: Anuj Magazine

How to Make the Right Mistakes
Written by: Steve Keating

Leadership: What is The Essence of Building Trust
Written by: Aad Boot

How-abouts and What-ifs
Written by: James Thomas

Why Do We Estimate Anyway?
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Quote of the day:
“Growth starts where your comfort zone ends” -Allen J. Scott

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Five Blogs – 28 October 2013

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An Example of a Product Ecology for Testers
Written by: Ruud Cox

Estimation Quality
Written by: Pawel Brodzinski

The Best Type of Leader? Nice and Tough
Written by: Will Yakowicz

Empathetic Negotiation Saved My Company
Written by: Charalambos Vlachoutsicos

Want To Build A Successful Company? Give Up Control
Written by: Paul B. Brown

EXTRA:

Delegate – Don’t Abdicate
Written by: Bob Burg

Quote of the day:
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein

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Five Blogs – 25 October 2013

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Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees
Written by: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Project managers asking the right questions to the testers
Written by: Martin Jansson

Traffic Didn’t Crash the Obamacare Site Alone. Bad Coding Did Too
Written by: Michael Scherer

5 Tips for Last Minute Usability Testing
Written by: Inge De Bleecker

Fixing—or Not—Healthcare Dot Gov
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Quote of the day:
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply” -Stephen R. Covey

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Five Blogs – 24 October 2013

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Ten Tips for Delegating – The Best Time Management Tool
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

Why Leaders Need To Move Beyond First Impressions
Written by: Tanveer Naseer

Bureaucracy is a Bogeyman
Written by: Julian Birkinshaw

Building an Advisory Board: Practitioners vs Coaches
Written by: Hunter Walk

How Improv Can Improve Your Teaching
Written by: Jen Olenizcak

Quote of the day:
“When you want what you have never had, you must do what you have never done” -Unknown

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Five Blogs – 23 October 2013

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Testing: An Obvious Career Choice
Written by: Chris George

A Separation of Concerns
Written by: Liz Keogh

An Adult Conversation about Project Risk Management
Written by: Payson Hall

What Does ‘DevOps’ Mean to You?
Written by: Scott Barber

Are we there yet?
Written by: Anne-Marie Charrett

Quote of the day:
“Don’t blame the person, fix the system” -W. Edwards Deming

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Five Blogs – 22 October 2013

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Repetition in Practice
Written by: Justin Rohrman

Silos and Tribes
Written by: Bob Marshall

Focused Awareness
Written by: Simon Knight

Tasks? Whither the Test?
Written by: Iain McCowatt

Let’s break the Agile Testing Quadrants
Written by: Gojko Adzic

Quote of the day:
“The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds” -Russell Ackoff

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Five Blogs – 21 October 2013

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The Reason Some Theologians are Arrogant and How to Avoid the Pride Trap
Written by: Donald Miller

A Student for Lifetime
Written by: Bhavya

Time-tracking in Scrum
Written by: Markus Gärtner

Why Have We Stopped Listening?
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime
Written by: Ferris Jabr

Quote of the day:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Five Blogs – 18 October 2013

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Know Your Role! – Being Invested and the Art of Objectivity
Written by: Keith Klain

Nice Managers Embrace Conflict, Too
Written by: Ron Ashkenas and Lisa Bodell

5 Steps to Thinking in New Boxes
Written by: Michael McKinney

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
Written by: Joshua Davis

the fiat of test automation
Written by: Perze Ababa

Quote of the day:
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.” -Bruce Barton

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