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 …
Agile testing days are over. I have not been there, but from Twitter it seems they happened in a different land – the Unicorn Land. Must be great there, all those helpful experts and friendly people, a lot of fantastic user names with certain message…: @FriendlyTester, @the_qa_guy, @badtesting, Testknight, …. …
The topic of our last StugHH Event reminded me of the German IKEA slogan “wohnst Du noch, oder lebst du schon” (something like “Are you still dwelling or have you got a life already?”). The topic was: “Self-organized teams? Hierarchy? And QA/IT right in the middle?” The event showed that …
Last week I had the exceptional chance to participate on a very special conference on quality. Except for the keynote, no speaker in the program but about 40 speakers overall. A warm up party event in the evening, but everybody discussed already quality. No expectations on contents but tons of …
Bind forever? Schiller is talking in his “Song of the Bell” about the bond of marriage, and assumes this is a lifelong bond. Nowadays, it is more common to talk about “marriage contracts”, so the above would read as “therefore test, who wants to subscribe a contract”. And I guess, …
Lean testing or dying in beauty? Concentrate on the essential or cover all? Is lean testing just the dernier cri, for those, including management, who think testing is too costly? There is an evolution in testing as well. Not from ape to human, but from “Happy without testing” via “test …