Agile is about everywhere. You see it in start ups, larger companies, but also in government, financial or medical context. These are not exactly known for being able to cope with a non-fixed scope of things to be done. And there usually are laws that give regulations on how to …
Caution. We talk quality. And have fun. And learn. We are testers. If you ever wanted to feel great and talk about your testing passion without anybody rolling their eyes, come to the Hamburg QS Barcamp. The last one took place on September 1st 2018 at oose Innovative Informatik together …
Those of you who know me, won’t believe the next bit: I just love being led! Not all the time, not by everybody, but there are situations where I absolutely prefer good leadership over no or poor leadership. I even really enjoy leadership when dancing the tango Argentino. And I …
In agile context, you might have heard of “fail fast”. Rapidly inspecting and adapting gives you the opportunity to change your mind in case the first idea was not as brilliant as thought of. But “fail forwards”? Learn by failing forwards is one of the principles of liberating structures. Liberating structures …
As you are a manager, let me use an analogy. Assume, we are creating a dessert from a given recipe, a chocolate cheesecake, with hot cherries and vanilla sauce. What plan would you create to make sure the result is yummy? The Process Model In this case you know what …
Looking for failures in a system requires curiosity, professional pessimism, a critical eye, attention to detail, good communication with development peers, and experience on which to base error guessing.” This sentence from the CTFL syllabus would also scare you away? It sounds so depressing. Professional pessimism. Who wants that? I …
Take your test object. Turn it around. How does it smell? How does it taste? How does it feel? Can you suck at it as well as on the previous? What is the difference? Throw it away and see if Daddy also gets this one back to you… What I …