Management

The right test documentation is the one that satisfies the goal for the right audience and at the right cost. More often that not it means focusing on the smallest amount of documentation you need to do your job well.

My career has been defined by a lack of test managers. Only 25% of my jobs have had them. That's led to a few interesting challenges.

Whenever possible, you should hire testers with testing certifications There are 2 big challenges when hiring for a role: 1. Getting enough applicants 2. Finding a match within those applicants Should a hiring manager focus on hiring testers with certifications over those without? No, they should not. First, it creates

I started my previous post by saying “2021 was an improvement over the previous year”. This was due, in large part, to the growth and new challenges at work. Here are some more reflections and a few fun stats from 2021 on those new challenges: Growth Growth at Promenade came

One of the hardest things thus far about becoming a manager (managing others and their work) has been learning to balance my maker’s schedule with my manager’s schedule. Maker Schedule, Manager Schedule The concept comes from a Paul Graham essay which says: There are two types of schedule,

In May of 2020, back when Promenade Group was still called BloomNation, I opened a job posting for a Software Test Engineer. This was to be the first of many test positions we eventually hire for. After going through the whole process of hiring a software tester, I thought it

Last week I attended CAST in Cocoa Beach, Florida, which was my second time attending and the first since CAST in Grand Rapids back in 2015. It was a fun experience for a number of reasons including giving my first workshop at CAST and being elected to the AST Board

Yahoo! has been in the news quite a bit over the last few years as it’s primary business of placing display ads slowly dies and it searches for new ways to grow and/or remain relevant. It’s hired new executives, lost new executives and made acquisitions. Plenty of

Throw someone else in to help QA it faster! A former boss (or two) of mine I’ve heard this statement many times in my career but it happened again just recently and it got me thinking. Aside from the poor choice of words, about “QAing” something (is that really

(Stolen from the Rapid Testing Intensive site) It’s official I’m booked for the onsite Rapid Testing Intensive with James and Jon Bach at the end of July on Orcas Island in Washington. According to the website this testing intensive will be based on “… Session-Based Test Management and Rapid