Last week I had great time hosting a Typemock Webinar called “10 secret unit testing tips”. The fun thing was that I’ve discovered both in preparation and answering questions live that I have at least 20 tips in me for at least two more webinars. So prepare for “10 secret unit testing tips strike back”
This is the presentation I gave today at the “QA and Development in Agile” conference (It’s a bit more detailed than what the people in the room saw). This wasn’t a technical presentation, just an overview to the newly initiated to unit testing – third of the room wrote unit tests, the rest didn’t. And
I’ll be presenting this Thursday, May 19th, in Sela’s “QA and Development in Agile”, in Ramat Gan. The presentation is called “Expert tips: Unit testing tips for the agile developer” (It’s going to be in Hebrew). Also appearing in the conference are Typemock alumni Lior Friedman and Dror Helper. I’m going to hang around all
I have a confession: I’m an early adopter. I like new shiny stuff. And if I like what I see, I’ll continue to use it. I was wondering a few days ago, what is the difference between what I’ll continue to use and what I’ll drop. The first tool that came to mind? Ask around
ADC2011 is over, and I had a mighty fun time. Like I open my talks, I’d like to speak first on my favorite subject: me. I had two talks, one on unit testing SharePoint applications, and the other about tools for identifying issues in multithreaded apps (slides below). I can tell you that all those
It’s been a few weeks now, for my tenure as product manager at Typemock. Time for a review. What did I learn of becoming the product owner in an agile company? Get yourself a good coach. That may be true for every profession, but especially for the newly initiated, it’s a blessing if you can
If you’re like most people you’re under-resourced. You have many more tasks than you can handle. Your team is fully booked. And the work keeps pouring in. They ask: “What should we do first?” What should we work on first to go into the product? Bugs coming in from support calls? Maybe this cool new
I’m a big fan of Manager Tools. I’ve been listening to the podcast and recommending it to anyone, manager or not, for the last five years. A recurring topic in the podcast is Manager Tools co-founder Mark Horstman’s laws: It’s all about people More communication is better. And there are more, and I invite you
It will be for me.This Wednesday, December 15th, I’m going to be a bit busy. 3pm Israel time, that’s 2pm CET, and 8am EST I’m giving a webinar about steps you can take right now toward agile. I really like to learn real world actionable stuff, and this webinar is where I’m giving back. Do
Heads-up: I’ve recently started looking more closely into lean and kanban. Expect more posts like this one. Typemock is a unique company. Developers’ work is similar to our customers’ work. And so, since day one, the developers have also been doing support work. Support calls have their own life cycle. That’s why usually they are