
August - Toread
Agile, code coverage, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips
31st August
📻 How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People? If you manage people then this podcast is worth a listen. Having a better understanding of why we compare ourselves to others (social creatures living in hierarchical structures) and…

How Falling Behind Can Get You Ahead
Agile, links, Reading, talks, videos“Jack of all trades, master of none,” the saying goes. But it is culturally telling that we have chopped off the ending: “…but oftentimes better than master of one.”

July - Toread
Agile, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips
At the intersection of software, technology and people
What is this?
Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of the links…

June - Toread
Books, Reading
Toread
At the intersection of software, technology and people
What is this?
Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of…

Agile Manchester 2020: Testers Edition
Agile, Reading, talks, Testing, Tips
I’ve always found that tester representation at agile conferences to be lacking. It’s a bit like it doesn’t have the word test in the titles so it’s not for me. Personally I’ve always found a treasure trove of information from talks…

How to learn from failure
Agile, feedback, psychological safety, quality, Reading[Organisations] that catch, correct, and learn from failure before others do will succeed - Amy Edmundson

How to break the rules?
Agile, Books, Kanban, Reading, TOC, Uncategorised, videosDan North gave a really interesting talk at last years GoTo Conference called How to break the rules.
He takes Eliyahu Goldratt 4 steps of how technology is adopted which he presented in a series of lectures he gave on why people didn't take…

How to keep up to date with the testing industry?
Books, Reading, Testing, TipsI recently spoke at UKStar 2018 and the team there asked me a few questions on how I keep up to date in Testing and the industry as a whole which I’ve reproduced here.
What is your favourite testing book/blog? Why is this your favourite?
Two…