I’m always slightly sceptical of the phrase ‘timeless’ when it comes to management literature, given the infinite variance of people and the situations we find ourselves in. The Effective Executive was described as exactly that […]
Author: Ash Winter
The bigger the rock, the smaller the pieces need to be
You know what I really, really value in a fellow professional in the information technology delivery world? That special, magical ability to decompose a large (and potentially complex problem) into small, simple subtasks. A child […]
If you don’t believe it, why should anyone else?
The question of what skills do testers need intrigues me. This always occurs to me when engaged in the search for ‘good’ people to hire. We (as in the technical sphere) tend to hire predominantly […]
I KNEW IT!
I like to think I have a nose for a problem. Not necessarily a bug, but just when something doesn’t seem right. The extent to which I follow up on these gut instincts varies depending […]
Shallow Statement Syndrome
‘Surely its just a case of doing X and creating a Y, then we’ll obviously get to Z. I’ve done this lots of times before.’ This is an example of Shallow Statement Syndrome, one I […]
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