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How to come up with ideas for blogging

It is with great irony that I present you this article on getting more ideas to blog about. It’s not like I’m the most productive person when it comes to writing blog posts, although it’s not the lack of ideas that’s stopping me. It’s more,

Agile Testing Days 2016: Wrap Up!

It’s a good thing Pete Walen was attending ATD again, because my live blogging efforts weren’t up to par this year. I posted two blogs so far, but they were neither live nor very detailed. It’s just that I didn’t attend a lot of talks this

Agile Testing Days 2016, Day 2

In the morning I was having the all too familiar fight with nerves again (every time I am about to give a presentation this happens). I stayed sober the night before, but I had very little sleep. I was already ‘busy’ with my talk in my mind. At breakfast, I

Agile Testing Days 2016, Day 1

Never have I ever….Been hungover before a conference even started. Oops, guilty. I have never started a conference on such a weird note. I guess I have to tell what happened. The short version is: IF you cannot handle a lot of alcoholic beverages, THEN don’t drink a

Exploratory Testing with the Team: The Sequel!

As luck would have it, one of the developers I worked with during the time I was doing experiments with getting my whole team hooked on exploratory testing is now also working at my current client. He came to my desk and asked if I was interested in teaching his

The Thing with Quality at Speed

For the first time ever I’ve had to start writing a blog for the third time over. A new experience to me, because usually the words come flowing. Not this time! The topic is a difficult one in the sense that I have a hard time finding the right

Just Ask for Help

On TestWorks Conf I had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on Exploratory Testing with Maaret Pyhäjärvi. It was great and I learned so much that day! My head was spinning with all the new insights and I felt very inspired. One thing that Maaret said that is so important