Five Blogs – 30 September 2014

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On Folly
Written by: Pete Walen

Leading The Life You Want
Written by: Stephanie Denning

Don’t Tell Anyone About Trivial Bugs
Written by: Eric Jacobson

Strategic or random? How the brain chooses
Written by: Howard Hughes Medical Institute

6 tips for building a successful creative business
Written by: Tom May

Quote of the day:
“Having no destination, I am never lost” -Ikkyu

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Five Blogs – 29 September 2014

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4 Ways I Tell If Someone I’m Interviewing Has Passion About the Job
Written by: Kris Dunn

Innovation Tools: Observation
Written by: Simon Knight

Courage: The Missing Ingredient in Decision-Making
Written by: Susan Taylor

Don’t Count on It
Written by: James Thomas

3 Types of Posts to Avoid on Social Media
Written by: Megan Totka

Quote of the day:
“First, last and always, the professional focuses on mastery of the craft” -Robert McKee

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Five Blogs – 26 September 2014

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7 Signs You’re Definitely a Procrastinator
Written by: Amelia Olson

How Perfectionism Can Hold You Back
Written by: Lolly Daskal

3 Powerful Ways to Get Unstuck and Into Action
Written by: Alli Polin

WIP and Priorities – how to get fast and focused!
Written by: Henrik Kniberg

The software testing schism
Written by: Rob Marvin

Quote of the day:
“When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.” -Simon Sinek

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Five Blogs – 25 September 2014

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Paying Down Technical Debt
Written by: George V. Hulme

The Tricky Business of Developing Trust
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

An exploratory testing example explored: Taskwarrior
Written by: Alan Richardson

One Experimental Possibility: Self-Organization from Component Teams to Feature Teams
Written by: Johanna Rothman

There Is No Wrong Time
Written by: Craig Jarrow

Quote of the day:
“Lying can never save us from another lie.” -Vaclav Havel

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Five Blogs – 24 September 2014

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Test Knowledge Trumps Domain Knowledge
Written by: Geordie Keitt

Property-Based Testing – Testing Assumptions You Don’t Know You’re Making
Written by: Scott Vokes

Exploritory Testing – Modus Operandi
Written by: Derk-Jan de Grood

The context driven testing community
Written by: Katrina Clokie

The Art of Hosting Meaningful Meetings
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

Quote of the day:
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Five Blogs – 23 September 2014

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Why would I do regression testing?
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Achieving the impossible requires insanity
Written by: Dave Dame

Tools for Innovative Thinking
Written by: Simon Knight

Open Letter to the Testing Community (re: ISO 29119 conflict)
Written by: Freddy Vega

The lost art of software testing
Written by: Dave Winer

Quote of the day:
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are” -Theodore Roosevelt

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Five Blogs – 22 September 2014

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Self-management, really?
Written by: Tobias Mayer

TDR – Test Driven Relationships
Written by: Bob Marshall

No Estimates Minus Continuous Delivery Equals ???
Written by: Jeremy Clark

Back to basics 1: Testing with oracles and heuristics
Written by: Mike Talks

Change is Learning: No Silver Bullets or Quick Fixes
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Quote of the day:
“Don’t think you are, know you are” -Morpheus, The Matrix

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Five Blogs – 19 September 2014

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Learning How to Handle Failure
Written by: Heidi Oran

Become a More Flexible Thinker
Written by: Alice Boyes

Twenty Years, Seven Companies, Nine Different Styles of Testing
Written by: Michael Larsen

Test Leadership
Written by: Katrina Clokie

7 ways to help your team deal with ambiguity
Written by: Karin Hurt

Quote of the day:
“Given the impossibility of complete testing, any activity that does not directly contribute to the mission of testing is waste” -Iain McCowatt

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Five Blogs – 18 September 2014

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How Business Leaders Turned Into Vampires
Written by: Steve Denning

I Don’t Journal, I Do This Instead
Written by: Alli Polin

8 Signs You Are Working Too Hard
Written by: Andrew Brushfield

The Top 4 Qualities of Great Mentors
Written by: Dan Rockwell

Ageism in the tech world
Written by: Justin Rohrman

Quote of the day:
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way” -Napoleon Hill

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Five Blogs – 17 September 2014

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ISO 29119
Written by: Matthew Heusser

5 Questions to Create a Compelling Purpose for Change
Written by: Emily Axelrod

What you measure will improve
Written by: Joel Montvelisky

Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve
Written by: Henrik Kniberg

ISO 29119 Debate – A Historical Perspective Part 1
Written by: Nick Welter

Quote of the day:
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing” -Tom Peters

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