Diversity in Tech Conferences
The organiser, program committee and program chair perspective On an almost regular cadence, I end up reading about conferences getting heat for their lack of diversity in their speaker lineup.…
How to make meetings not suck #2: Filling the meeting with value
(Note: This is a follow up/deep dive from this post) A lot of people hate meetings and claim all (or most) meetings are waste of time. While I certainly agree…
Agile Testing Days Open Air – How to make meetings not suck
In May 2022 the first Agile Testing Days Open Air took place, and there Samuel Nitsche and I premiered our workshop “How to make meetings not suck”. This post is…
Summary of 2021
It’s so easy to get caught up in the daily work and miss out on the bigger picture. To help with that, I try to take a moment at least…
The power of three
Background Yesterday, Christoffer Bennet invited me to a round table discussion on the topic of ”How to get the best out of Engineers while they work remotely”. It was a…
Psychological safety and inclusion in agile teams – pair blogg #5
Background In case you haven’t read about my pair-blogging idea before, a short summary from the first post: A while back I asked on Twitter for people who would be…
Onboarding remotely during a pandemic – Pair-blog #4
Background In case you haven’t read about my pair-blogging idea before, a short summary from the first post: A while back I asked on Twitter for people who would be…
”Testers don’t break software!”
Introduction I believe most of us have heard the statement ”Testers don’t break software, we break the illusion of it working”. For a while, something has bothered me with that…
Coaching upwards? Pair-blog #3
Background In case you haven’t read about my pair-blogging idea before, a short summary from the first post: A while back I asked on Twitter for people who would be…
Testing is like…
Background Again, Twitter comes to my ”what should I write about next?”-rescue! Heather Reid shared a challenge from the Bloggers Club on the Ministry of Testing. The challenge is to…