Five Blogs – 30 September 2021

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

5 Reasons to Stop Being a Perfectionist
Written by: Marie Leslie

API Security 101: Insufficient Logging and Monitoring
Written by: Vickie Li

Is It Dangerous to Calculate the Cost per Point?
Written by: Mike Cohn

Quality Leadership: Influence through Informal Leadership
Written by: Jess Ingrassellino

Leadership In Test: Managing Your Career
Written by: Paul Gerrard

Quote of the day:
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” -William Shakespeare

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Five Blogs – 27 January 2021

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

Having Testers Makes Quality Worse
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

The Economics of Software Testing: Opportunity Cost
Written by: Nicola Lindgren

Common search engine questions about testing #7: “Is software testing a good career?”
Written by: Lee Hawkins

15 DevOps Trends to Expect in 2021
Written by: Pavan Belagatti

The Testing, not the Testers
Written by: Jesper Ottosen

Quote of the day:
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” -Unknown

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Five Blogs – 25 June 2020

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

Cost of Delay Vs Cost of Poor Quality
Written by: Duncan Nisbet

My experience of working from home full-time during the pandemic
Written by: Lee Hawkins

5 Home Office Ideas That Will Encourage Your Productivity
Written by: Nicole Garrison

How To Set Smart(ish) Goals For Testers Part 3
Written by: Thomas Cagley

The Art of Exploratory Testing
Written by: Sanjugtha Shoba

Quote of the day:
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” -Richard P. Feynman

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Five Blogs – 21 June 2019

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

How to Document Testing with SBTM: Testing IRL Part 2
Written by: Cassandra H. Leung

Quality: Cost and Timing
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Three Job Benefits of Better Speaking Skills
Written by: Jim Holmes

To Get Quality Software, Let Them Fail
Written by: Matthew Heusser

BDD discovery: the briefing for your squad
Written by: Gáspár Nagy

Quote of the day:
“My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.” -Rachel Wolchin

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Five Blogs – 7 September 2016

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

Cognitive bias cheat sheet
Written by: Buster Benson

I Constructevly Object To Gherkin Language
Written by: Karlo Smid

A Model of Automating
Written by: Alan Richardson

What’s so special about specialists?
Written by: Brent Jensen

The Cost of a Reject
Written by: Joe Nolan

Quote of the day:
“Growth occurs at the edge of your comfort zone.” -Jesse Lyn Stoner

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Five Blogs – 22 January 2015

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

The Myth of the 20 Percent
Written by: Robert D. Smith

Variations On A Curve
Written by: Adam Knight

Some thinking about decisions
Written by: Dave Snowden

Focus is important – but for how long
Written by: Avi Kaye

Today’s Challenge: The Peter Principle
Written by: Mark Miller

Quote of the day:
“Efforts to force commitment will at best foster compliance.” -Peter Senge

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Five Blogs – 9 July 2014

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

End of the Road or Time for a Road Map?
Written by: Huw Price

The One-Word Answer to Why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Have Been So Successful
Written by: Greg McKeown

Practical Performance Testing on Any Budget
Written by: Stephen Gyves

What is an Estimate?
Written by: Vasco Duarte

5 Ways To Start Being Productive Today
Written by: Ericson Ay Mires

Quote of the day:
“It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to” -Jean-Luc Godard

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Five Blogs – 27 February 2014

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

Calculating the Real Cost of Multitasking on Your Projects
Written by: Johanna Rothman

When, And How, To Let Learners Struggle
Written by: Annie Murphy Paul

How to build a startup that learns quickly
Written by: Nicholas Evans

What Does Success Mean to You?
Written by: Boris Groysberg

Budget instead of estimating
Written by: Gojko Adzic

Quote of the day:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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