Five Blogs – 13 May 2016

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

How do you work out what’s next
Written by: Katrina Clokie

Agile Economics: Scale And The City
Written by: Gil Zilberfeld

How Much Support Do You Want or Need?
Written by: Johanna Rothman

The Planning Doing Cycle
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

Unicorns Of Testing
Written by: Brendan Connolly

Quote of the day:
“It is not the fittest that survives. It’s the one that adapts faster with less negative side effects that survives” -Vasco Duarte

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Five Blogs – 14 December 2015

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

Assessing Team Improvement
Written by: Esther Derby

Automation is a Technique, Not Testing
Written by: Jeff Nyman

The On-Boarding Conundrum
Written by: Maayan Veltz Lampert

Why say QA?
Written by: Rich Rogers

IoT Abandonware: When your cloud service leaves you stranded
Written by: Jason Perlow

Quote of the day:
“Better to be silent than full of meaningless words” -Daily Zen

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Five Blogs – 24 April 2015

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

Peripheral vision and peripheral testing
Written by: Joel Montvelisky

Who are you really helping?
Written by: Mary Jo Asmus

Stop Doing Retrospectives
Written by: Curtis Cooley

How Do Your Estimates Provide Value
Written by: Johanna Rothman

15 Tricks To Overcome Procrastination
Written by: Frances Booth

Quote of the day:
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten” -Victor Hugo

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Five Blogs – 14 October 2014

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

Seeking for conflicting evidence: agile & testers
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

The Ten Worst Testing Tips I Ever Gave
Written by: Jan Jaap Cannegieter and Steven van Voorst

Pairing On a Mission
Written by: Lisa Crispin

Don’t write a single test! Until you know how to do it
Written by: Joel Montvelisky

8 Work-from-Home Myths Debunked
Written by: Nicole Fallon

Quote of the day:
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Five Blogs – 11 September 2014

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

Written Feedback – Yes, It Hurts. Do It Daily!
Written by: Jurgen Appelo

Know thyself (social media and self-knowledge)
Written by: James Christie

Work-At-Home Mental Health Mistakes
Written by: Jodi Okun

Are You Taking Time to Think?
Written by: Johanna Rothman

The Four Principles of Happiness
Written by: Fred Smith

Quote of the day:
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live” -Marcus Aurelius

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Five Blogs – 10 December 2013

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Energy, Time, Priority, Work/Life: 4 New Ways To Organize Your To-Do List
Written by: Mike Vardy

5 Tips to Build Trust in Your Decision-Making Abilities
Written by: Randy Conley

Elementary, my dear customer
Written by: Adam Knight

On Certification, Or Something Like It
Written by: Jon Hagar

WHOSE 2013 recap
Written by: Justin Rohrman

Quote of the day:
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” -Nelson Mandela

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Five Blogs – 17 October 2013

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

The Reality Of Freshly Minted Software Engineers
Written by: Gunter Ollmann

Applying the UX Usability Matrix of Emotions
Written by: Duncan Nisbet

Seven Strategies for Helping People Get What They Want
Written by: David Bernstein

If you do not know it, admit it – the power of not knowing
Written by: Derk-Jan de Grood

My Testing Platform
Written by: OTS

Quote of the day:
“Failure is where success likes to hide — in plain sight.” -Scott Adams

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Five Blogs – 13 September 2013

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How to Write a Good Bug Report (and be a Bug Advocate)
Written by: Chris Kenst

Approval Testing
Written by: Emily Bache

Failure: Will You Quit Or Will You Question?
Written by: Tim Milburn

10 Simple Rules For Good Writing
Written by: Lianne Martha Laroya

Is Offshoring Less Expensive? Exposing Another Management Myth
Written by: Johanna Rothman

EXTRA:

How to Support a Woman in Tech
Written by: Marlena Compton

Quote of the day:
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” -Walter Bagehot

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Five Blogs – 17 January 2013

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

6 Self-Serving Team Behaviors That Will Torpedo Your Team
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

Agile Testing – Context driven testing perspective
Written by: Sigurdur Birgisson

Leadership is an inside job
Written by: John Wenger

7 Ways to Ensure Your New Hire Has a Great First Day
Written by: Karin Hurt

So You Want to Be a Manager? Part II – Five Wrong Reasons for Becoming a Manager
Written by: Randy Conley

Quote of the day:
“Productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is.” -Eli Goldratt

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Five Blogs – 4 May 2012

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

Not Everyone Appreciates a “Good” Bug…
Written by: Michele Smith

Why Innovation Dies
Written by: Steve Blank

Everything is a bubble
Written by: Scott Berkun

Is It Time for Calendar Triage?
Written by: Michael Hyatt

Self-Awareness Matters: Finding Your Filters
Written by: Esther Derby

EXTRA:

Education is all wrong: Training doesn’t work. Teaching doesn’t exist
Written by: Ayd Instone

Quote of the day:
“Dont be afraid to go after things; in the worst case you dont get what you did not have in the first place.” -Unknown

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