The Association for Software Testing recently announced a 2012 Grant Program designed to advance the cause of testing at local user groups and events. Want to invite a speaker on […]
An Interview on Craft Academy … and more!
The folks at Informit.com recently published my interview with Ken Auer, master instructor at RoleModel Software Craft Academy. We think you’ll like it. Speaking of publishing, I’m in December Issue […]
The New New Thing
Three weeks ago, I helped break the news that Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST 2012) would be in San Jose, California, July 16-18, and the CAST 2012 […]
CAST 2012 – Dates, CFP is up!
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you probably know that CAST 2012 is the Conference for the Association for Software Testing. What you might not know is the exact […]
Gonna Send Five Copies to my mother!
My article “Ten Thoughts on Technical Debt”, is the cover story for this month’s Better Software Magazine. Want to start with the dessert, then decide if it’s worth paying for […]
World Quality Month … and More
After a year of participating in ASQ’s Voices of Quality Program, it seems it’s about time for me to hang up my hat. Yes, they did graciously offer to let […]
A Couple of Announcements
1) I will be presented “Hands of Quick Attacks” on Nov 15th from 5:30 to 7:30-ish in South Bend, Indiana, at the South Bend Software Craftsmanship meetup. Registration is free, […]
Come Work with me?
My current primary client is seeking full-time employees to fill programming, test/QA, programmer tech lead, and dev/test manager positions in Notre Dame, Indiana. Current openings are full-time/salaried, but that may […]
The General Motors "Culture of Quality"
You may recall that in 2011, I am trying something new — participating in the Influential Voices program of the American Society for Quality. The program is pretty simple. Each […]
… and five more articles
So far, I’ve made fifteen posts to my IT blog. In an attempt to keep up, here’s the next five, and why, maybe, you might to care: Was Nicolas Carr […]
Get Y’r Articles – online and free, like you want ’em
I’ve started a new blog for the folks at IT Knowledge Exchange, mostly about applying systems thinking to general IT. Unless you follow my twit stream, though, it’s doubtful that […]
Tomorrow Through the Past
(Continued Apologies to Robert A. Heinlein) This year, at the Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST 2011) I was a little sad, but not surprised, to hear so […]
My Independence Day (Or Something Like It)
Friends of the blog have probably noticed that, around May of this year, I went independent. There wasn’t really a big announcement. In April I was hit by a restructure […]
Quality in the Executive Suite
For this months “View from the Q”, the people at the American Society for Quality recorded an after-talk chat with Dr. J.J. Irani of Tata Group, India’s single largest company. […]
A Town-Hall Announcement — and some articles, too!
As I’ve mentioned before, I am currently running for a director position in the Association For Software Testing (AST); I also have a bit of news on that front. First, […]
Vote for Matt!
Recently the Association for Software Testing (AST) announced it’s 2011 slot of candidates for the board of directors. Vote for Matt, get free stuff! Well, actually … sorta. I’ve published […]
Controversies in Software Testing
My article “Controversies in Software Testing” was published in the July Issue of the Testing Planet. The issue is available now to anyone with a print subscription; the PDF will […]
I’ve been busy … no seriously
Last month I started a new blog called “Unchartered Waters”, for IT Knowledge Insights, on general IT, with a bit of a focus on Software As A Service and Cloud […]
CAST 2011 Emerging Topics – Deadline Extension
So Pete Walen and I talking yesterday about the CAST 2011 Emerging Topics Track, and it’s July 1st Deadline. We have plenty of proposals already, but we thought “if we […]
Matt Heusser — Running Man.
I’ve been nominated to run for one of the open board of directors positions for the Association for Software Testing. The election will take place August 9th during the Conference […]