Dealing with Mindsets (Mindset part 3)
Photo by Pixabay In our first blog post in this series on mindset Nicole and I summarized the book “Mindset” by Carol Dweck. In our second blog post we shared our personal history with growth and ...
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Looking Back on Perfection and Burnout (Mindset part 2)
Photo by Hampton Lamoureux In our last blog post Nicole and I summarized the book “Mindset – Changing the way you think to fulfill your potential” by professor Dr. Carol Dweck. In this blog post w...
Mindset the book (Mindset part 1)
I am fascinated by mindset. As a lifelong learner I have read piles of books, done many courses and been to over a 100 conferences. When I started coaching people I learned about the power of thoug...
Do we need testers?
Last week I did a talk at Agile, Testing & DevOps Showcase in Amsterdam. My topic was “Testing in modern times“. Testing in modern times In agile and especially DevOps approaches the motto...
7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change – a book review?
At Agile Testing Days 2019 during the keynote “I can’t do this… alone! A Tale of Two Learning Partners” by Lisi Hocke and Toyer Mamoojee) I got inspired by their story about learning pacts. During ...
Mastering my Mindset
People perceive me as extremely confident. One of my personal mentors once said: “you are fearless”. That is only the outside. Inside I am soft and insecure like most people are. I have fears, quit...
The art of reflection
Photo by Andre Mouton Once is coincidence Twice is striking Three times is pattern October 19-21, 2018 DEWT held their 8th annual peer conference with “Developing expertise in software testing” ...
Considerations when testing a software application in a context-driven way
Written by: Joris Meerts (main author), Huib Schoots and Ruud Cox at the time of writing all working at Improve Quality Services in the Netherlands. Introduction One of the cornerstones of context...
Let’s stop talking about testing, let’s start thinking about value
This is an Alex Schladebeck and Huib Schoots co-production and this blogpost was co-authored by Alex. So where you read I, you could read Alex and I. This year Alex Schladebeck and I did two keyno...
Creating a Test Strategy
At EuroStar 2017 I did a experiential workshop with Pekka Marjamaki and Carsten Feilberg called “The Magic of Sherlock Holmes – Test Strategy in a blink of an eye”. The goal of this full day worksh...