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- 21 Feb 2024 » Calls to Action
It's up to you to lead meaningful change using the ideas from this Making Software Quality Visible series. Here are some final resources, insights, and calls to action to improve your own software quality culture.
- 15 Feb 2024 » Building a Software Quality Culture
Software quality doesn't come from forcing people to use specific tools, techniques, or processes. It happens when making high software quality becomes part of their lifestyle. Here are a few hints to make that happen.
- 05 Feb 2024 » Coding Mechanisms
It's easy to forget that technologists are people, too. You can't fix all your bugs with moar code. Here are some of my own nontechnical, human struggles, in case others find comfort in seeing reflections of their own.
- 23 Jan 2024 » Narrowing the Imagination Gap with the Test Pyramid in Action
The "Making Software Quality Visible" series will resume shortly. Before that, I'm excited to share a new training project I've developed. I'm also about ready to start a business or find another job soon.
- 23 Oct 2023 » Business as Usual: the Normalization of Deviance, Groupthink, and the Arms Race
Accepting unnecessary complexity, risk, waste, and suffering as part of Business as Usual produces cultural failures that have actually taken lives. It also encourages an Arms Race mindset that makes problems worse.