Mike Bland: posts tagged "Test Mercenaries"Index of and tag-specific Atom feed for posts on Mike Bland's blog tagged: Test Mercenaries2023-08-28T00:00:00-04:00https://mike-bland.com/tags/test-mercenaries.xmlMike Blandmbland@acm.orghttps://mike-bland.com/about.htmlQuality Work and Results Visibility2023-08-28T00:00:00-04:002023-08-28T00:00:00-04:00https://mike-bland.com/2023/08/28/quality-work-and-results-visibilitySoftware Quality must be visible to promote a Quality Mindset that improves
everyone's individual choices, ultimately minimizing complexity, risk,
waste, and suffering. This visibility also reveals our common humanity.
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priority for everyone. Roadmap programs like Test Certified and Quality
Quest help provide focus, shape conversations, and show results.
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in January 2008, launching new tools that drastically reduced suffering all
across Google.
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this case, honesty and an open mind created a profound opportunity.
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Google—but more importantly, I began learning how to change culture.
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my Test Paratroopers internal consulting team.
Copyright 2019 Mike Bland. Except as noted, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://mike-bland.com/policies.html for details."Testing Smarter with..." interview2017-03-27T00:00:00-04:002017-03-27T00:00:00-04:00https://mike-bland.com/2017/03/27/testing-smarter-with-interviewBrothers John and Justin Hunter of Hexawise interviewed me for their
"Testing Smarter with..." series, just posted to the Hexawise blog.
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2017 went really, really well; the slides and full narrative are available here!
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on March 8 to catch <em>The Rainbow of Death</em>!
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Wednesday, March 8 at 9:15am ET is promising to be the best talk I've yet
given.
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portfolio page, and I've some updates on go-script-bash v1.4.0 and more.
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Royall & Company at the invitation of Isaac Truett
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probably my favorite iteration of the talk so far, is now available. Plus a
bonus go-script-bash lightning talk!
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Google in 2005" in the upcoming DevOps Handbook.
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Surge 2016 this Friday at 11am.
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to Netflix's culture of "Freedom and Responsibility".
Copyright 2016 Mike Bland. Except as noted, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://mike-bland.com/policies.html for details."Making the Right Thing the Easy Thing" presentation2016-06-16T00:00:00-04:002016-06-16T00:00:00-04:00https://mike-bland.com/2016/06/16/making-the-right-thing-the-easy-thingI delivered a talk on the importance of documentation and training to the
culture change mission during the Chadevs weekly lunch Meetup.
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and will be live streaming another talk Thursday at noon.
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(abridged)" talk, as well as an extra surprise.
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workshop in Chattanooga.
Copyright 2016 Mike Bland. Except as noted, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://mike-bland.com/policies.html for details."The Convergence of Wills" slides2016-05-03T00:00:00-04:002016-05-03T00:00:00-04:00https://mike-bland.com/2016/05/03/the-convergence-of-wills-slidesHere are the slides to my Beyond20'16 presentation, "The Convergence of
Wills".
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talk about Google and 18F, is now available on YouTube
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