Digitalization Is a Process, Not a Project
Digitalization does not end with an online store. It is a process that touches every level, and agile values help handle complexity and uncertainty.
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Thoughts and insights on software testing, quality assurance, and the future of technology.
Dreaming Utopias: Star Trek as a Vision for Our Work
Dreaming utopias like Star Trek helps teams look beyond everyday fuss and define how they really want to work and live together in the future.
Complicated Became Complex: Why We Work Agile Today
Software and its framework conditions have turned from complicated to complex. Agile working helps teams deal with what they cannot know in advance.
Wanting to Want: Software Teams as the Seed of Change
Wanting to want is where change starts. Why systems resist it, and why software teams with self-drive and self-responsibility can be its seed.
Digital Transformation Needs Personal Development
Digital transformation needs people who grow with it. Copying single Silicon Valley habits leads to fair-weather agility and frustration at all levels.
Test Dimensions for Integration Testing: Identifying Gaps
Test dimensions structure integration testing: objectives, test objects, level, test basis and typical errors. Mapping them reveals the gaps.
Testing in the Digital Transformation
Testing in the digital transformation must scale with complex, networked systems, supported by test automation, agile processes and microservices.
Agile Testing Quadrants: How Testing Changes in Agile Teams
The agile testing quadrants by Gregory and Crispin put all test types in one picture. With test pyramid and exploratory testing, the team owns quality.
Automation in Testing: From a Nice-to-Have to a Must-Have
Automation in testing is now a must-have. It reaches well beyond test execution to static analysis, test data, environments and non-functional tests.
DevOps: Digital Transformation Requires Continuous Testing
DevOps needs continuous testing: IT systems are never finished, so data, processes and data transfer need automated tests with users involved.
Object-Oriented Technology: Promises Only Partly Kept
Object-oriented technology promised big productivity gains and near-zero maintenance. Studies show partial success, with gains in reuse and portability.
Zero Inbox: An Email Workflow That Separates Mail and Tasks
Zero Inbox keeps the email inbox empty and separates emails from tasks. With this workflow, my daily email time dropped from 2 to 3 hours to about one.
Gardening: My Small Garden as a Personal Retreat
Gardening gives me a retreat from the screen: weeding as meditation, food that follows the seasons, bare feet in the grass and a notebook outdoors.
Flow in Everyday Work: The Principles That Keep Me Focused
Flow in everyday work grows from a few principles: tasks as projects, small steps with quick feedback, single focus and retrospectives keep me in it.
Flow: Why Mindset Matters More than Time Management Tools
Flow is a question of mindset. Time management tools help, but it takes the will to change, leaving your comfort zone and regular reflection.
Agile Mindset: Why Agility Is Primarily a Matter of Mindset
An agile mindset matters more than agile methods. Without openness to change, projects fail despite them, and the mindset helps in everyday life too.
Sensory Impressions in Software Design
Software design gains depth when user wishes are captured with all senses. The Walt Disney strategy, VAKOG and the Dilts pyramid help along the way.
Testers Need More Creativity: Unit Tests Free Up Test Design
Software testing is changing. Unit tests, TDD and automation free testers to design better tests and question the product from the user's point of view.