Thanks to the wonders of modern communication technology, I was interviewed by Rob Sabourin as part of his course on Software Engineering Practice for McGill University undergraduates in Montreal, Canada. I took part in a small group interview with McGill students back in February 2016, as I wrote about in my blog post, A small […]
It’s that time of year again and I’ve gone through the pain of reviewing the latest edition of Capgemini’s annual World Quality Report (to cover 2022/23) so you don’t have to. I reviewed both the 2018/19 and 2020/21 editions of their report in some depth in previous blog posts and I’ll take the same approach to this year’s […]
It was a long time coming (thanks to COVID and the harsh restrictions imposed on Melbourne especially during 2020 and 2021) but, after three years, the Testing Talks conference finally took place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Thursday 20th October. Appropriately billed as “The Reunion”, the conference saw over 400 keen testers […]
The Association for Software Testing ran another lean coffee over a Zoom meeting on 21st September, designed primarily for the European timezone (in their morning) but also again being convenient for me to attend in Australia. For anyone unfamiliar with the concept of a Lean Coffee, it’s an agenda-less meeting in which the participants gather, […]
I’m not sure how I came across the book Exponential Organizations (by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone & Yuri Van Geest) but it ended up on my library reservation list and was a fairly quick read. The book’s central theme is that new technologies allow for a new type of organization – the “ExO” (Exponential […]
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