How to do all of the things, all of the time
I’ve decided to take a different approach to my career and the rest of my life this year. If you’ve been following my Twitter account, you might have noticed some …
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Upcoming talk: Four lessons I learned at Google
Brisbane folks, don’t miss my upcoming talk Four Lessons I Learned At Google, which I will be giving at the Brisbane Software Testers meetup on February 27, hosted by Thoughtworks. …
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I’ve now made it easier to follow this blog from your favourite social media platform. Facebook Page – “Like” this page to follow me in your Facebook feed. Please don’t …
Better hiring with less bias
When I worked at Google, all employees were encouraged to take an unconscious bias test to help us uncover and reflect upon our personal biases. The test covers areas such …
Could future developers be testers?
I was watching an interesting talk about how the Pinterest engineering team has created an abstraction layer to control views at a behavioural level for iOS applications. The speaker pointed …
Goodbye Google, hello Brisbane
It was with mixed emotions that I resigned from my job at Google last week. Yesterday was my last day. I had already said my goodbyes to my wonderful coworkers …
Diversity starts with empathy
Imagine working hard for years to be part of a profession that you’re excited about. Imagine going to one of your first conferences and seeing well-respected people in your profession …
Rock solid testing without hiring an army
This is my favorite talk that I’ve ever done. I presented it at the Business of Software conference in Boston last year. The audience were business people – company founders, …
Heading home
It’s been richly rewarding experience living in Silicon Valley for the last year and a half, but due to various factors I’ve decided to head back home to Australia and …
Preparing for your presentation
Presentations used to terrify me. I remember stressing for days about having to give a 3 minute presentation in high school about a topic of my choice. I chose “ghosts” …