Five Blogs – 16 September 2022

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How to deal with dates and times without any timezone tantrums…
Written by: Paul Ducklin

Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power
Written by: Greg Satell

Automation – A Marathon, Not A Sprint
Written by: Ryan Craven

Tips for reducing the threats of your employees
Written by: Elias Chachak

How To Handle Technical Debt?
Written by: Markus Gärtner

Quote of the day:
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived” -Baz Luhrmann

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Five Blogs – 10 March 2022

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The Incredible Benefits of Being Action-Oriented
Written by: Gregg Vanourek

NVIDIA’s Stolen Code-Signing Certs Used to Sign Malware
Written by: Lisa Vaas

Why Happiness Is a Choice
Written by: Sarah Hiner

Accumulation of tech debt; experiments and shortcuts are core components
Written by: Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard

Why Are Traceability and Test Coverage Important
Written by: Taryn McMillan

Quote of the day:
“Time is the longest distance between two places” -Tennessee Williams

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Five Blogs – 29 December 2021

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Vaccines, not lockdowns, are route to recovery
Written by: Richard Branson

Software Entropy: A Comprehensive List
Written by: Yaniv Preiss

Sure Things
Written by: Steve Keating

Testing and Syntax
Written by: James Thomas

The 10 worst tech stories of 2021
Written by: Brandon Vigliarolo

Quote of the day:
“May all that has been reduced to noise in you become music again” -David Teems

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Five Blogs – 20 November 2020

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On Exactitude in Technical Debt
Written by: Kevlin Henney

Collaboration
Written by: Thomas Cagley

A Personal Journey to Exploratory Testing
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

The Theseus of Testing
Written by: Jeff Nyman

Three Ideas to Create Safety in Remote Retrospectives
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Quote of the day:
“We can’t have everything, ’cause where would we put it?” -Lemmy Kilmister

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Five Blogs – 29 July 2020

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10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 1
Written by: Maaike Brinkhof

Addressing User Experience (UX) debt
Written by: Jason Yip

Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 12)
Written by: Michael Bolton

4 Lessons We Can Learn From The Digital Revolution
Written by: Greg Satell

Four Tips to Write Better Bug Reports
Written by: Nishi Grover Garg

Quote of the day:
“Sometimes you don’t get closure, you just move on.” -Karen Salmansohn

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Five Blogs – 3 September 2019

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In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage
Written by: Mike Erwin

The art of asking questions in a technical presentation (and questions cheat sheet)
Written by: Doron Bar

From Tester to Product Owner
Written by: Jokin Aspiazu

Getting Paid to Learn
Written by: Chris Kenst

Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt
Written by: Dormain Drewitz

Quote of the day:
“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything” -Billie Joe Armstrong

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Five Blogs – 8 October 2018

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Keep Your Automated Tests Simple and Avoid Anti-Patterns
Written by: Lisa Crispin

How to Advance in Your Career When Your Boss Won’t Help
Written by: Kristi Hedges

Optimize Your Hardening Sprint for a Quality Advantage
Written by: Nishi Grover Garg

Why Collective Intelligence Beats Individual Intelligence
Written by: Pawel Brodzinski

For CTO: When is the time to pay technical debt?
Written by: Oleksii Fedorov

Quote of the day:
“Rise above hate, pain, depression, the past.” -Mick Kremling

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Five Blogs – 26 September 2018

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Does Test Driven Development Work?
Written by: Ruairí O’Brien

How to Disagree with Your Boss—And Still Have a Good Relationship
Written by: Lolly Daskal

Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence
Written by: Johanna Rothman

Hindsight lessons about exploration: What is testing?
Written by: Victor Slavchev

Quality Tool Job Aid: Check Sheets
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Quote of the day:
“Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.” -Nikita Gill

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Five Blogs – 6 September 2018

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Five Reciprocal Agreements In Agile
Written by: Thomas Cagley

Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

Problem-Solving Strategies: What’s the same/different & Reduce to the base case
Written by: Brett Hinton

Grow a Growth Mindset Organization
Written by: Ralph van Roosmalen

Make a technical debt payment plan
Written by: Trish Khoo

Quote of the day:
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.” -Haruki Murakami

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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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