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 […]
I’ve been following the story of the UK Post Office and its dubious prosecutions of sub-postmasters based on “evidence” of their wrongdoings from its IT system, Horizon, for some years. My mother worked in the Post Office all of her working life and I also used to work there part-time during school and university holidays. […]
The Association for Software Testing ran a lean coffee over a Zoom meeting on 24th May, designed primarily for the European timezone (in their morning) but also being convenient for me to attend in Australia. While I’ve attended Lean Coffee sessions at conferences and other events over the years, this was my first experience of […]
After 25 years or so in the IT industry, and with the vast majority of my experience being in testing, I rarely find myself surprised by even the most nonsensical stuff that crosses my virtual desk. It often feels like the same mistakes and traps are being made and fallen into by a new generation […]
A relatively rare scheduling of the online version of the Rapid Software Testing Explored course for Australasian timezones presented me with an invitation from presenter Michael Bolton to act as a “peer advisor” for the course running from 7-10 February. I had already participated in RST twice before, thanks to in-person classes with Michael in […]
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