Past Presentations
You can find an extensive list of presentations and courses that I've taught, including the slides and speaker notes for many of them, here.
Coming up—let's meet!
Highlights from my schedule appear below. If you notice that I'm in your part of the world, drop me a line if you'd like to get together. If you'd like to engage my services and worry that I'm not available, please note that my clients' schedules are subject to change, so mine is too. Please drop me a line in any case.
April 8-10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A one-day workshop on Critical Thinking for Software Testers and a track presentation on The Role of Emotions in Testing at the inaugural STARCanada conference. I'll also be doing a Lightning Talk. What a lineup! Colleagues Rob Sabourin, Jon Bach, and Jonathan Kohl are featured presenters, and do not miss track talks by Keith Klain, Fiona Charles, Griffin Jones, Eric Jacobson, Iain McCowatt and Paul Holland.
April 14-18
Wellington, New Zealand
A three-day Rapid Software Testing class, and some other events too, sponsored by Assurity. Registration information is here.
April 29 - May 3, 2013
Orlando, Florida
At the STAREast Conference, a one-day tutorial, "A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing", and a track talk on the role of emotions in software testing.
May 13-15, 2013
Copenhagen, Denmark
A public three-day Rapid Software Testing class, presented by PrettyGoodTesting. Registration and information here.
May 16-17, 2013
Copenhagen, Denmark
A public two-day Rapid Software Test Management class, presented by PrettyGoodTesting. Registration and information are here. Save by registering for both classes as a package.
May 20-22, 2013
Stockholm, Sweden
For its second year, I'll be presenting a tutorial and a track session at the Let's Test Conference in Âkersberga, outside of Stockholm, Sweden.
September 16-20, 2013
Orcas Island, Washington, USA
I'll be a co-presenter (with James Bach) at a Rapid Testing Intensive Online workshop.
September 30-October 2
Belgium
At last Rapid Software Testing comes to Mechelen, Belgium for a three-day course (plus other events) organized by InfoSupport and ZSharp Consulting. Register here!
November 4-7, 2013
Göteborg, Sweden
I'm Programme Chair for EuroSTAR 2013, Europe's largest testing conference.
In a similar vein, some years ago there was a self-congradulatory piece in Crosstalk by a defense software shop that had done a CMM / process thing for a couple years. It looks like they did some real good with that exercise, actually. That’s not the point.
The article was based on a survey, where among other things they trumpeted their 20% or so response rate. This is outstanding for anonymous surveys. For your own organization, people you’ve been working with intensely for a couple years, it’s pretty lame. For replies from the folks doing the work, to the folks driving work practice improvement, tools & etc. it’s bad.
Then, I noticed that the organization was about 35 people. Maybe 50 if you cound the process-y and audit folks.
The most interesting stuff from this survey – information, I think:
- Fifty people. What’s with a survey? How about you go talk to them?
- Couple years working together on process improvement, and they don’t seem real interested, do they?
- Why the survey? Don’t you know? Isn’t it your job to know?
Every observation will include real information that points directly and immediately to what is going on, if you pay attention. This particular survey pointed out that something wasn’t working, that the folks involved were missing the point, and that any conclusions from the survey itself were highly suspect.
ha , its like asking the new joinee to take up a survey as to why he liked that company … after the long survey … he changes his mind !
thanks