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Really Communicate: Part II

Posted on August 21, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog posting on How Do We Rise Above The Noise And Really Communicate?  The post was an exploration into why modern means of communication fail us. As the example, I used one of my colleague’s decision to tell something important in email. The piece was very damning of email [...]

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Knowledge Decay

Posted on August 13, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized |

A couple nights ago, I went to the Knoxville Agile Group meeting and listened to a SCRUM-Lean talk, given by Joe Little of Kitty Hawk Consulting.  He’s a great presenter on Agile topics, particularly Lean.  Unlike some of those other Agile jokers, err…I mean experts, he seems to know what he’s talking. Anyway, he hit me [...]

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How do we rise above the noise and really communicate?

Posted on August 9, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

We recently had a situation where a developer made wide sweeping changes to our codebase. For years we have ignored the hundreds of compiler warnings in our codebase, but now, with the blessing of management, we finally got the go ahead to work on and fix those warnings. We are not talking one or two [...]

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Testing Produces Patience: The Hardening of Code and Process by Fire.

Posted on July 27, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized |

While in church yesterday, I got a word.  No, it wasn’t a spiritual epiphany.  It was a testing epiphany!  I won’t claim that it was a word from God, but I won’t say that it wasn’t either.  We were in the book of James, reading this passage: 2 My brethen, count it all joy when [...]

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Why Testers? An Existential Pontification

Posted on July 24, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized |

For those that are not familiar with the profession of software testing or those that don’t believe in our value, I have written this piece to shed light on the basic psychology of why there exists the occupation of software testing.  However, I must not make the assumption that all know what it is to [...]

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