After much anticipation, myself and three of my colleagues embarked on the Software Testing World Cup journey in the European Preliminary. We had prepared, strategised, booked rooms/monitors, bought supplies and all the other (actually quite […]
Tag: thinking
The Fallacy of the Single Point
Ever heard of the ‘Fallacy of the Single Cause?’ It refers to the rarity of single causes resulting in particular effects, it turns out the world is more complex than that. Many different inputs […]
Reviewed – The Testers Pocketbook by Paul Gerrard
I had heard a great deal about this little book. Some who had read it appreciated its premise, some were in fairly fundamental disagreement. If a text generates polar opposites of agreement, then that immediately […]
Lets celebrate! Anyone still out there…..?
Pyrrhic victory. I was reminded of this term a few days ago. It is when winning decimates *almost* everything, so winning is basically not worth the cost exacted to achieve it. I believe I have […]
Reviewed – The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
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 […]
Diagram Industries 