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Let’s get the band back together

August 30, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Blog, Conference, Conferences, Creative Chaos / No Comments

It’s been eight years since we announced Software Delivery 24/7. The idea was to have a safe place to talk about software, a conference list, a resource list — a […]

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Your Late Christmas Present

February 4, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos / No Comments

beautiful testing book cover If you wanted a Christmas present, I’m here for you. My last employer, Socialtext, developed one of the first long-term successful selenium implementations. We  called them […]

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More on the “Attack on the Testing Role”

June 22, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Testing / No Comments

About a month ago I took a slide from James Bach’s Orcas Island Training and posted it to twitter. The internet became very upset, I suspect more from the writing […]

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Make Software Testing Great … Again?

May 17, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Blog, Creative Chaos / 8 Comments

Yesterday, as I was attending James Bach’s course reinventing testers, I took a picture of a slide that I knew would be contentious in the Software Testing world … and […]

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“Must have Agile/Scrum Experience”

April 15, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Blog, Creative Chaos, Writing / 2 Comments

Recently, someone asked me what “Must have Agile/Scrum Experience” in job descriptions and advertisements actually means. It got me thinking, so I wrote it up for Medium.com What’s medium, you […]

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We’re going to Orcas Island

January 20, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Conference, Creative Chaos, Testing, Training / 1 Comment

“The shoemakers children have no shoes” may be a common expression, but it is common because it is true enough, enough of the time. The mechanic’s car is a beater […]

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What have we been up to?

December 1, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Conferences, Creative Chaos, Presentations, Reading, Testing / No Comments

It’s been a busy few months at Excelon. The New York Trip, a brief European tour, Justin went to Boston for STPCon, thanksgiving, lots of writing – actually lots and […]

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Footprints in the Sand

March 16, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Holistic/Systems Thinking, Process, Testing, Tools / 1 Comment

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 […]

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Save Our Scrum

October 30, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Presentations, Process, Skill Building, Video / No Comments

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 […]

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New Articles — and an announcement

May 14, 2012 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Process, Software Engineering Classics, Strategy, Testing, Writing / 3 Comments
A poster on simplicity

I just got back from interop, the conference for emerging technologies that connect business – from data center to cloud to switches, servers, and software. It was an incredibly busy […]

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Testing Philosophy II –

December 11, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Rants, Testing / 4 Comments

About every four months, Shrini Kulkarni convinces me to drop the term “Test Automation” from my vocabulary. After all, testing is a creative, thinking process. We can automate some steps […]

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My theory of software testing – I

December 5, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Rants, Testing / 5 Comments

What’s the right mix of exploratory testing, “planned” manual testing, and test automation? My short answer is “it depends.” Now, you don’t need to point out that “it depends” is […]

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Certifiable – III

January 15, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

I am drafting a reply to the agile-leadership group, but posting it here first. Several people (including me), asked what problem certification solves, or who the “customer” is for the […]

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Certifiable – II

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 3 Comments

Another post, this one to the agile-management list … Ron Jeffries Wrote:A leadership certification, one would imagine, would perforce be far less specific and far more general, but just as […]

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Certifiable?

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

The Agile Project Leadership Network is working on a certificate program in Agile Leadership. This has been discussed a bit on the Agile Leadership Yahoo group. I just emailed a […]

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Agile Shark Jumpin’ – IV

December 20, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Agile / 1 Comment

I turns out that my Collegue, Jim Brosseau has been going through some of the same issues that I have. Jim and I don’t totally agree on every issue (who […]

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Shark Jumpin’ – II

December 15, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Agile / 2 Comments

Ben Edwards commented yesterday that in TV Shows, the characters age and the writers need to introduce new characters or plotlines to keep things interesting. Those things may make the […]

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Agile Jumped the Shark? – I

December 14, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Agile / 3 Comments

On Happy Days, there was an episode where Fonzie jumped a shark tank on his motorcycle. Many people consider that the “high water” mark of the show, and believed that […]

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XP, Dear XP …

December 8, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Agile / 1 Comment

Extreme Programming in Japan? You’ve got to see this video. Don’t worry, it has subtitles, and it’s only three minutes long.

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Canary in a Coal Mine

December 6, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Process, Video / 1 Comment

There is an interesting talk in Info.com by Ken Schwaber. Ken is a co-author of the agile manifesto and co-inventor of Scrum. If you don’t want to listen for an […]

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