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 […]
Excelon 2012 Newsletter!
It’s December! … and gosh I haven’t been blogging much here lately. Plenty of articles everywhere else, unconnected and all over the place, but not much here. It’s time I […]
How To Speak To An Agilista (If you absolutely must)
I gave an emerging topics talk at CAST 2011 titled “How to Speak to An Agilista.” I did not mean disrespect by the title; I was going for comedy. It’s […]
i18n Test of the Day
Last year I wrote an article for SearchSoftwareQuality.com on Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) – the ability to have people user international characters in software, and the ability to change […]
Just Sign Right Up We’re Hard to Miss …
. For about three years now, the Excelon Development jingle has made reference to a mailing-list. Wait, you don’t know the jingle? Ok, it goes like this(*): You […]
New Articles — and an announcement
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 […]
The New New Thing at Excelon
It’s been an amazing couple of weeks, include a week working from home, a weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana, for a board meeting for the Association for Software Testing, the […]
Let’s call the calling-off off
There’s been a fair bit of discussion lately on the test-o-sphere about the status and the future of context-driven testing. I believe Scott Barber has provided the best overview, and […]
What Matt Is Up To
It’s been a busy couple of months. Test Coach Camp Heats Up First off, Test Coach Camp has reached it’s a viable number of applicants. It is on. The most […]
Meetup in NYC – Next Week!
I’ll be in New York City Next week; there is a software testers meetup including a dinner sponsored by the Financial Services Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Association for […]
Back from Vacation, Plus More Articles!
It’s been a little quiet around here at Creative Chaos lately. Let me tell you a little bit about what’s been going on behind the scenes. First, I just got […]
… I told you it would get better
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 […]