Five Blogs – 12 July 2019

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

When Meetings and Management Styles Are Collaboration Fails
Written by: Thomas Cagley

The nine rules of “Freddish”: the positive, inclusive empathic language of Mr Rogers
Written by: Cory Doctorow

These 3 Cognitive Biases Can Kill Innovation
Written by: Greg Satell

Continuous Testing in DevOps: A gamification approach
Written by: Jorge Toribio

You say either and I say either You say neither and I say neither…
Written by: Chris Armstrong

Quote of the day:
“Today’s worries are yesterday’s fears and tomorrow’s stories” -Alyson Noël

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Five Blogs – 30 April 2019

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

Chaos Engineering: Rethinking testing in the era of the Cloud and DevOps
Written by: Peter Varhol

Here Are The Best Ways To Develop Self Awareness
Written by: LaRae Quy

Satisfice Website Quality Assurance
Written by: James Bach

Sympathy vs. Empathy in UX
Written by: Sarah Gibbons

Build Just Enough of a Feature with ATDD
Written by: David Bernstein

Quote of the day:
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” -Stanley Kubrick

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Five Blogs – 22 March 2019

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

To Drive Innovation, We Need To Hire For Diversity And Empathy
Written by: Greg Satell

How LEGO® can help you facilitate self-designing teams
Written by: Erik Talboom

Parallelizing test automation? Read this first.
Written by: Paul Grizzaffi

Devops – Integrating team cultures
Written by: Vipul Gupta

We Use Less Information to Make Decisions Than We Think
Written by: Ed O’Brien

Quote of the day:
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” -Amelia Earheart

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Five Blogs – 13 August 2018

In Memoriam : Jerry Weinberg

And I thought I had time…
Written by: Smita Pandey Mishra

Remembering Jerry Weinberg
Written by: Aleksis Tulonen

Farewell, My Dumbledore
Written by: Michael Larsen

Jerry’s Story: In Memoriam
Written by: Danny Faught

Jerry Weinberg’s Last Worry
Written by: James Bach

EXTRA:

Tribute to Gerald Weinberg: Testing is Harder than Development
Written by: Joe Colantonio

Thank you, Jerry Weinberg
Written by: Rich Rogers

Quote of the day:
“If you reward busyness, you’ll get lots of tests, but not much testing.” -Jerry Weinberg‬

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Five Blogs – 12 January 2018

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

How Empathy Makes You A More Effective Leader
Written by: LaRae Quy

When Do Constraints Help?
Written by: Johanna Rothman

How Increasing Your Work Speed Can Help You Beat Procrastination
Written by: Craig Jarrow

All Successful Leaders Need This Quality to be Effective
Written by: Lolly Daskal

6 reasons to co-locate your app and automation code
Written by: Angie Jones

Quote of the day:
“I rebel; therefore I exist.” -Albert Camus

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Five Blogs – 15 May 2017

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The Value of a Buzzword
Written by: Justin Rohrman

The Coming Age of Empathic Computing
Written by: Mark Billinghurst

Remember what your tests are trying to verify
Written by: Bas Dijkstra

3 Qualities of Great Storytellers in Software Testing
Written by: Josiah Renaudin

Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android
Written by: Iliyan Malchev

EXTRA:

‘WannaCry’ Rapidly Moving Ransomware Attack Spreads to 74 Countries
Written by: Dawn Kawamoto

Quote of the day:
“Don’t start with the process. Start with the person your product is for” -Blake Miles

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Five Blogs – 27 April 2017

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Fake News!
Written by: John Stevenson

Change Artist Super Powers: Empathy
Written by: Esther Derby

Peer conferences, part 1
Written by: Erik Brickarp

Android UI Automation frameworks
Written by: Carlo Matulessy

Why Entrepreneurs Need An Agile Mindset
Written by: Dionne Mahaffey

Quote of the day:
“An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity” -Petteri Tarkkonen

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Five Blogs – 5 December 2016

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The Illusionary Premises of Software Estimation
Written by: Ralf Westphal

Exploratory Testing with the Team: The Sequel!
Written by: Maaike Brinkhof

Test Manager vs. Project Manager : Changing motives and Perspectives
Written by: Shrini Kulkarni

Curiosity Killed the Tester
Written by: Steven Cross

How I Climbed A Mountain Using Exploratory Software Testing
Written by: Josh Trench

Quote of the day:
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word” -William Thackeray

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Five Blogs – 8 September 2016

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Testing Under Stress
Written by: Joel Montvelisky

On Ego and False Dichotomy
Written by: Pete Walen

Why Managers Fail Their Teams – And What To Do About It
Written by: Dorie Clark

Customer empathy – five simple tips
Written by: Rich Rogers

Moving to a continuous world. This changes everything
Written by: Jeff Gothelf

Quote of the day:
“A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing… It can change your life” -Tobias Wolff

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Five Blogs – 5 August 2016

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

What is Pair Testing? (Free Your Testers)
Written by: Joe Colantonio

How to Beat Procrastination
Written by: Caroline Webb

The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Written by: William Treseder

Empathy In Software Testing
Written by: Sowmya Ramesh

Better Estimating Can Lead to Worse Peformance
Written by: Gerald M. Weinberg

Quote of the day:
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been” -John Greenleaf Whittier

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