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 […]
Whose Workshop is it, anyway?
This summer I’ll be coordinating TestRetreat, a one-day retreat with a goal of launching major new initiatives for the software testing world. That said, I’d like to tell you about […]
Tomorrow’s Excelon Development
Johanna Rothman, the famed consultant, author, and former Agile Conference Chair, just put out a blog post called The Company Doesn’t Love You. It is probably more important to your career […]
The Big, Big, BIG News!
It has been an incredibly busy few months for me. The first, largest, and happiest announcement I have is that TestRetreat is finally a go – August 24th in Madison, […]
A Good Thing
I’ve developed a new habit of starting lecture presentations with an audience self-assessment. Basically I tell the audience what I will present, and, if they already know it, invite them […]
Springtime in Southern Michigan …
For the past couple of months I’ve been in Michigan, doing consulting/contracting for a local client. Whoever romanticized long-term road trips was wrong; it is nice to be home every […]
Awards – an Interview of Matt – and lots more!
The cruise was wonderful, but it didn’t last long enough. Christmas came and went, and it’s time to close the books on 2012 for Excelon. Speaking of 2012 and Excelon, […]
… And One More Thing
If you can’t wait a week to hear from me, there is other news embedded in the newsletter that you might be interested in. This week I start blogging for […]