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 […]
Read MoreWhat 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreSave 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 […]
Read MoreAnnouncing 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 […]
Read MoreExcelon 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 […]
Read MoreWhat 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 […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreCAST 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 […]
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