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No women speakers? No Bother!

No women speakers? No Bother!

That might surprise you if you listened the Eurostar Webinar last week where Fiona Charles and I explored the numbers of women speaking at software testing conferences. If you didn’t hear it you can now [https://vimeo.com/134959112] (Spoiler ahead it’s roughly 25%*) Considering that there are

Agile Australia and Intent based Leadership

Agile Australia and Intent based Leadership

Today I went to Agile Australia as an attendee. That’s a first for me, usually, I’m speaking. It was wonderful to go with a different purpose, which is to learn from others. Typically, if I’m speaking I’m so focused on ‘my talk’ and getting ready for

Nice girls don't get the Keynote

Nice girls don't get the Keynote

Keynotes are something to be earned and rightly so. Typically a keynote comes from someone who likes to speak, who is good at speaking, and has something interesting to talk about. I know many women testers who meet the above criteria. They have the requisite ‘merit’ required to be a

Paying Attention to Paying Attention to Detail

Paying Attention to Paying Attention to Detail

One question I often ask a tester in an interview is what they believe are the essential skills that differentiate a good tester from a great tester. One of the common replies is “Paying attention to detail”. But what does that really mean? Start with detail. What do you mean

Bobbing for Embedded Apples

Bobbing for Embedded Apples

How does having a software tester in a team impact quality?

How's your signal to noise ratio going?

How's your signal to noise ratio going?

It's not only engineers that need to deal with S/N (Signal to Noise Ratio). Test Managers have to deal with lots of noise, manage projects, deal with stakeholders, identify potential future risks, maintain test environments, hire testers, and meetings, meetings & meetings. And traditionally, when you sign

Hi, my name is Done and I'm conflicted

Hi, my name is Done and I'm conflicted

If there is ever one word that highlights the difference between a tester and a developer’s mindset it has to be the word done. Developers¹ tend think of done as a form of sign off. A story is done when the code is complete. For many developers, it’s