Almost exactly one year ago Markus and I met at Agile2014 and came up with a new idea, “Save Our Scrum.” We saw problems across not only our customers, but […]
On TestRetreat
We did it again. On August 1st, a small group of people assembled in The Factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to discover and learn about testing together. It was a […]
What is this TestRetreat you speak of?
My friend Carl Shaulis just registered for TestRetreat:Grand Rapids. His blog post on the topic boils down to “I don’t really know what TestRetreat is, but I trust Matt Heusser […]
Isn’t it time you had a TestRetreat?
“Let’s Twist Again, like we did last summer. Let’s twist again, like we did last year” – Chubby Checker It all started in 2012, on Friday and Saturday before CAST, […]
Saying Goodbye to a Giant
“If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will […]
Footprints in the Sand
I came across a lot of ideas in graduate school. Some, like Test Driven Development, Extreme Programming and Scrum skyrocketed my career forward. Others were models – a way of […]
What We’ve Been Up To At Excelon
For about three years I published two articles a week, every week, on the old Creative Chaos blog. In 2008 we moved Creative Chaos to be the blog for Software […]
The Workshop on Teaching Test Design
Have you ever seen an HR manual that told you everything about the interview process: How to post a job, how to book a training room, how to have the […]
The Lean Test Canvas
Here’s a simple exercise: Ask the team what “better testing” would like, then contrast that with how management and customers reply to the same question. The question points out a […]
Save Our Scrum
Ken Schwaber, a co-creator of scrum, says that roughly 25% of teams trying the method realize the gains they had hope. More teams call themselves “Scrumbut”, “Scrumerfall”, or “Scrumish” than […]
Announcing Software Delivery 24/7
“Matt, you should stop talking about other tech communities and just build your own. If you built it, it would be good, because it would be yours, and you follow […]
Excelon is hiring!
It’s been a little over a year since I wrote Tomorrow’s Excelon Development, the little article that hinted about what Excelon might turn into … someday … and how we […]
What Are People Saying About TestRetreatNYC?
In the three days since we announced TestRetreatNYC in August, we’ve sold half the tickets. Many of the folks attending the conference are coming back; they been to Test Coach […]
A Time Away …
Our latest event, TestRetreat, is coming to New York City August 9th. Not just New York City, but 7th Avenue, in the fashion district. That is the same location that […]
CAST plans, anyone?
This years Conference for the Association for Software Testing, CAST, is August 11th-13th in New York City, at New York University (“NYU”) on Washington Square. The problem? There is no […]
The Software Testing World Cup
Imagine a world test competition, held over the internet, on your continent, in a time zone that is reasonable for you, on a Saturday, with local judges you know and […]
Consider the Lowly Calculator App …
Yesterday, Ben Kelly, the most famous context-driven tester in Japan(*), tweeted a link to a reddit where (apparently) a programmer was asking for help testing a website. He couldn’t possibly […]
Getting Your Writing Published On The Web
You’ve been reading blogs and the twitter-sphere for awhile. Perhaps you have been writing your own blog, but you long to be endorsed by a ‘real’ website and published. Perhaps […]
New Podcast (and WHOSE CFP!)
Thomas Cagely recently interviewed me for the Software Process and Measurement Podcast. We talk about the ‘death’ of the testing, the role of the testers, the misunderstanding of that role, […]
Miles to go before I sleep
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep – Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy […]