SoftwareQualityConnection.com is a new website about software, quality, process and general business, made possible by the folks at SmartBear Software. They’ve also published an article of mine, on “Four Ways […]
Read MoreCASTing a Wide Net
So CAST 2011 – the Conference for the Association for Software Testing, is going to be August 8-10 in Seattle, Washington. A fair amount of the program is up, including […]
Read MoreThe limits of systems
Four years ago — well before crisis of fall 2008 or the housing meltdown, I wrote a little piece called Against Systems that got a little bit of press attention. […]
Read More2011 Quality Goals
Things have been a little quiet at Creative Chaos lately — most of my blogging has been over at the Software Test Professionals Community Blog. That said, every now and […]
Read MoreBudgets, Badges, and Badgers – III
Earlier in the week I introduced the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award, and my doubts about it — yesterday I posted a quick summary of my opinion. It is a serious […]
Read MoreBudgets, Badges, and Badgers – II
Last time I introduced the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award, and my doubts about it. I wrote a serious, detailed response that I will post tomorrow. In the mean time, though, […]
Read MoreBudgets, Badges, and Badgers – I
I don’t talk about politics much on this blog, but there are some interesting things going on right now with the USA Federal budget that seem relevant. Consider, for example, […]
Read MoreTest Management Certification
So I’m trying to figure out my 2011 (and beyond!) professional development plan. I’ve got a lot of ideas — I like to try a lot of things at the […]
Read MoreOne way to transition to agile
There’s been a little bit of discussion in the blog-o-sphere lately about how to “sell” agile, or how to convince senior managers to “adopt” agile, how to get buy-in and […]
Read MoreThe Drake Equation of Software Testing
In the 1960’s a scientist named Frank Drake came up with a formula to predict the probability of life on other planets — specifically the chance they would evolve to […]
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