How Octopus adapted engineering career ladders as we scaled
One of the ways Octopus engineering changed as we scaled was by modifying our role definitions for engineers. We wanted to provide […]
Let your voice be heard
Recently I started singing lessons again with a new teacher, after a couple of years’ hiatus. I love singing – I’ve been […]
Lessons learned from remote consulting
Up until the start of this year, I was running my own business as a sole trader doing a bunch of different […]
I am mentoring 20 people at once
About a month ago I started a program called “Group Mentoring”. Now I have over 20 mentees, in 6 different countries! Crazy, […]
Learning testing is like learning to paint
One of my “aha” moments with painting was when I took a gouache class and thought oh this technique is so easy […]
The best developers test their code
I am always surprised at how many software developers I meet who are reluctant to write unit tests. Writing good tests is […]
Automated test debugging cheat sheet
Are you having trouble working out why your automated tests are failing? The next time you find yourself stuck, try my automated […]
Great Books: Radical Candor and the Lost Art of Listening
My friend, mentee and fellow ex-Googler Paulo Lai joins me for this blog post today as we discuss some of the recent […]
Transparency – A holistic approach to software quality
This is the keynote I gave last year at Agile Testing Days in Germany. You wouldn’t know it to look at me, […]
Running a technical workshop as a D&D style adventure game
When I was invited to give a workshop at Agile Testing Days 2018 (Potsdam, Germany), I wanted to teach lessons in test […]