Woa. Some cobwebs on Creative Chaos, eh? Seems like Matt Hasn’t been very busy, doesn’t it? Gosh, I sure hope you don’t think that. Let me bring you up to […]
Kaner On Testing
Those of you who read this blog know I’ve probably spent tens, if not hundreds of thousands of words discussing the applicability of hard metrics to the management of software […]
Is Your Software Development Organization Agile?
Elisabeth Hendrickson gave a wonderful keynote on Agile-Testing at STAREast this year, and my Friend Dan Mondello took her definition of Agile and codified it with an article. It’s a […]
Selenium IDE
The folks at TechTarget just asked me to write an article on Selenium IDE, the integrated, simple, easy-to-use, free browser-driving automation tool for FireFox. And they just published it! You […]
Matt’s Big CAST Announcement – Part II
Did you know that CAST will be serving breakfast, lunch, and snacks? They are come free with your conference registration. More than that, we are currently working on sponsors to […]
Matt’s Big CAST Announcement – Part I
So CAST – the Conference for the Association for Software Testing – 2010 is coming up, and it’s going to be about 40 miles from my place, at the Prince […]
Technical Debt: Refired
Phil Kirkham has the cover story of T.E.S.T. magazine this month, talking about technical debt. It’s a good article and I recommend it. One thing I like about it is […]
A couple of articles, coming at you
I’ve always felt that the test automation literature is a little … odd. On the one hand, you have the floofly high-level tutorial, written so that it applies to every […]
Awards and Decorations
A little over ten years ago I interviewed for a developer job with Steve Hoek, at a tiny division of McGraw-Hill. Steve asked me if I saw myself collecting an […]
Claimin’ my blog
Part of the process of dusting off Creative Chaos and reusing it again is moving my RSS Feed. The new RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/CreativeChaos. In order to index the RSS […]
I’m just not excited about efficiency
… So we’re driving out to my daughter’s softball game in Hopkins, Michigan, and I choose to go straight instead of turning left at the shortcut. We’ve got plenty of […]
Free Teleconference – Today & Tomorrow
Software Quality Engineering is currently running Agile Development Practices West — and they are partnering with CMC Media to offer the keynotes online! You can register on-line and watch from […]
Never Read Another Resume – Now on-line
Hey, check it out, the people at Inc have put put “Never Read Another Resume” on their website. I really do believe that print journalism needs support right now, and […]
37Signals — and Inc. Magazine
Do you remember when Monster.com was actually a good source of job leads? Why, when it started, only tech-savvy people, techy-savvy hiring managers, and a handful of recruiters knew about […]
The more things change …
“We value responding to change over following a plan” – Some guys in Utah, 2001 It’s been fun posting at “Testing at the Edge of Chaos”, over at Software Test […]
… and thanks for all fish
Just over three years ago, I was having dinner after the Indianapolis QA Conference with Mike Kelly, and he said “Matt, do you even have a blog?” Well, er, ha […]
KanBan Redux
Well, Yesterday’s post on KanBan generated a little bit more heat than I intended. When I clicked submit, as I writer, I thought I had completed an opinion/editorial piece I […]
Have you heard of KanBan?
My writing colleague, Chris McMahon, has made an attempt to be public and clear about his stance on Kanban. It’s been inspiring, and I, too, would like to put my […]
Why is QA Always the Bottleneck?
“Why is QA always the bottleneck?” is the second in a series on how to deal with unfair test questions; it is up this week on SearchSoftwareQuality.com. (Free registration required.) […]
Life is short – live well
I was reading The Secrets of Closing Sales yesterday and was struck by this line: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more […]