Exploratory Testing QA: When Your Job is to Find Problems with Everyone’s Work As a Quality Analyst (QA) in the office, being the person looking for errors could cause a hostile relationship with developers.
Development Practices How to Solicit Better Feedback for Your Pull Requests Good pull request feedback is important but can be tricky to get on busy projects. Here are a few tips to get better feedback.
Effective communication Here’s How to Give Better Feedback Giving feedback can be uncomfortable, and the way we deliver it can have a huge impact. Let's look at how to give good feedback.
Managing Your Team Keep Your Team’s Feedback Flowing With 5-15s Any form of feedback requires trust to succeed. The 5-15 process only works if you actually address the employee feedback.
UX/Design Practices When Everyone Has a Seat at the Design Table If you can find a space for every voice at the table during design feedback, you might be surprised by the richness of the conversation.
Effective communication Client Team Feedback: Part 2 – How Is your client asking for feedback on their team? Part 2: Let's set some goals to make the conversation productive and positive.
Effective communication Client Team Feedback: Part 1 – Who, What, Why Is your client asking for feedback on their team? With some context and preparation, these conversations can be productive and positive.
Exploratory Testing How to Make the Most of Your Software Beta Trial: Post Beta Trial Edition I recently wrote about making the most of a software beta trial. Next, I’ll talk about what to do after the beta is over and the data is in.
Personal Optimization The Benefits of Ruthless Collaborative Critique Want real, constructive feedback on your work? Try ruthless critique – an extremely thoughtful, very direct, and sometimes contentious review.
Project & Team Management How to Apply Control Engineering Theory to Your Relationships How to leverage the three components of a PID loop to address problems and improve your relationship with clients (and everybody else).
Software Science PID – Helping Computers Behave More Like Humans An intro to the PID control algorithm, with a breakdown of its three components (Proportional, Integral, and Derivative) and their different purposes.
UX/Design Techniques Giving & Receiving Productive Design Critiques Design critiques are a great way to hone your skills and improve your projects. Here's what I've learned about giving and receiving productive critique.
