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NOTAM and Resilience

January 12, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

On Tuesday, January 10th, the US Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, system, went down overnight. As a direct result, no planes took off overnight or […]

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The place for #ChatGPT

January 2, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 1 Comment

, Two weeks ago I took my first, presumptive look at #ChatGPT for testing. The app has real potential, and seems to have some ability to learn. It’s tempting to […]

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ChatGPT for testers

December 23, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 5 Comments

How We Got Here Seventy years ago Alan Turing proposed that real Artificial Intelligence (AI) would be able to interact with the person through a keyboard and screen just like […]

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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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Introducing Contracting (+)

August 27, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

The 2020 Global Pandemic hit friends and family hard. For those who made it through, the loss of loved ones, economic damage, and forced isolation are not something to ignore. […]

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On working remote and mini-retreats …

August 6, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 1 Comment

A lot of us are working remote now. That is good. It seems that most of us have just traded a cubicle for a home office. That wasn’t the point; […]

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Automation Delay – and how to prevent it

February 20, 2021 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 3 Comments

Pretend for a moment you are a new development manager or director. You hired a programmer to lead a test automation effort. Gave the programmer time, resources, and attention. The […]

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Continuous Testing: Defined

July 19, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 3 Comments

If you check Wikipedia, or google, you’ll likely come to the Consensus-version definition of Continuous Testing. That definition is fine, I guess, as far as it goes. What it does […]

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On Remote Work – For TechRepublic

April 2, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

Long-time Excelon fans probably remember that back in 2008-2011 I was working from-home for Socialtext. That was some of the most intense, high-functioning time of my career. We hired the […]

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Individuals and Interactions

November 6, 2019 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments
The Agile Manifesto

The Agile Manifesto says to focus on individuals and interactions over process and tools. At Excelon, we go further to say that may be the single largest driver of performance. […]

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A Real Interview Result

November 4, 2019 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments
Real Interview Result

We’ve been studying lemon markets lately. HR departments simply can not understand every role in the organization, so they hire recruiters. But let’s be honest about the standard for recruiters. […]

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Announcing WhuTTT at the KWSQA Conference

September 17, 2019 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments
Whutttt Software Testing Training

We’ve been a little heads-down here at Excelon, working on our own projects, which we could discuss in a little more detail in a separate post. In the mean time, […]

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Excelon At CAST2016

July 29, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Blog / No Comments

Can you believe it’s only a week to TestRetreat and CAST? It’s time to talk about some plans. Excelon Development, along with a few friends, is renting a small condominium […]

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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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TestRetreat at CAST2016

March 28, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Blog, CAST, Creative Chaos, Events / 1 Comment

It’s been four years since the Association for Software Testing ran Test Coach Camp as a two-day pre-conference event. Limited to thirty people and by-application, we ran the event using […]

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Valid Measures for Mere Humans

March 21, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 2 Comments

“Metrics that are not valid are dangerous” – One of the principles of Context-Driven Testing In Action Over the weekend, I got in another silly argument over the internet. Martin […]

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When to lie on your resume

February 10, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 4 Comments

If you have reason to, please leave it in the comments. I’m afraid I can’t think of one at the moment.  

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Interviews Up!

August 27, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 1 Comment

I’ve had a fair number of interviews lately that I put up on twitter; I thought I’d share a few of them here with a little background. Last year, Carlos […]

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Saving the Scrum – Serious This Time!

August 12, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 1 Comment

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 […]

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