Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participating in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day. I have written a short story a while ago about the basics of the Fish! Philosophy for being an outstanding team member. In another blog post, I covered …

First of all, we should ask ourselves: “Why do we estimate?”. In a lot of cases it’s because of the wrong reasons, but let us assume we are in a context where estimates are needed.  What would that context look like? A Large-Scale setting where a Rolling Wave Plan is used by other parts in the organization (sales, …

During the lean coffee session last week at the European Testing conference, we were talking about the most important impediment for testers to get their work done. Most of which was the most important soft skill to have. The group agreed that the most basic of soft skills was communication. But we found it hard to …