My Sister works in an online gaming company. She has a lot of work these days – people stay at home, got plenty of time, and play online. Which brings me to another topic that slows remote work down. Gambling. It’s not really gambling, but it’s close to that. Most Read more…
We’re considering how remote work tends to slow us down, and how we can pick up the pace without losing quality, or steam. Last time, we’ve talked about the lack of availability of information with remote work. Let’s dive into that for a bit. As we all know, things change Read more…
Early morning, off to do some remote work. Just kidding, Early? Right. Anyway You got your task work ready for you. You know exactly what you’re going to work on today. You start coding, or writing a doc, or testing an app. And then stop. You have questions, or some Read more…
I looked around the office, and there was no one working. No typing. No staring confusedly at code. No arguments about where to eat lunch. Empty rooms. There are more and more workplaces like that. People start remote working, or on leave. Or worse. But how does work continue? Slowly. Read more…
Once more unto the breach, my friends. Once more. This time I took the Test Maintenance presentation to Tel Aviv. The presentation is right there below. Test maintenance is something nobody loves doing, but everyone must. The presentation is about what we do when we’ve accompanied lots of tests, some Read more…
Making the “Zen and the art of Test Maintenance” workshop into an hour long presentation, I made way north on a dark and stormy night. It was lovely to see old and new acquaintances. I saw a nice demo of new-ish open source tool called Oxygen, presented by Nick Dimer. Read more…
Last week I came back from Let’s Test South Africa. As always, Let’s Test stood up to its name. It’s a small conference, with a lot of hands on-learning, and a focus on community. It’s about testers meeting other testers, learning, and feeling good about it. My workshop “Zen And Read more…
Last time, I gave you the short-short version of thermodynamics. We talked about how entropy grows rampant, as well as creating waste in the system, if it doesn’t have constant energy input. Let’s get back to technical debt. The technical debt metaphor has two parts: First, it slows us down Read more…
Goodheart’s Law states that when a metric becomes a goal, it is no longer a good metric. I don’t know when technical debt became a metric. But SonarQube calculates and reports it as such. If this calculation is correct (you must be scratching your head right now) people may assume Read more…
We’re getting there. Here’s the final nail in the coffin: We are bad at translation and unfortunately, we do a lot of translations. In a typical application development, we’ve got a user who has a problem: “Why can’t I see the content when I open the app?” The business person Read more…