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I have rejected the idea of schools, as defined by Bret here,

I have rejected the notion of me being A MEMBER OF MY OWN SCHOOL HERE.

B.J. Rollison sets out at a succinct rejection of schools here.

Michael Bolton has revived the cold dead hand of schools in his talk at Eurostar 2008. Here is the presentation

I joined the UKTMF today having attended the forum yesterday, not for the first time - I thought that I'd joined years ago, but I hadn't. Still not to worry, I'm here now and I've got my very own blog.

This year, I've presented two talks on 'Past, Present and Future of Testing' at IBC Euroforum in Stockholm and 'Future of Testing' at SQC London. I thought it would be a good idea to write some notes on the 'predictions' as I'm joining some esteemed colleagues at a retreat this weekend, and we talk about futures much of the time.

You can download the paper from here.

The Twentieth Test Management forum took place on Wednesday 29th October at the conference centre at Balls's Brothers, Minster Pavement.

The meeting was sponsored by:
SOGETI, ELECTROMIND and FACILITA.

We are most grateful to our sponsors.

Session summaries and downloadable materials can be found here.

Many, many thanks for the invitation to speak and the hospitality of the Dansk-IT Test Manager Klub. A very welcoming audience for my 'traditional' pitch on Contracts and Testing and also the discussion on Axioms and Agile. Thank-you.

You can see the Axioms talk and paper here. The Agile Contracts slides are attached to this post. Also, the Axioms Worksheet I used in the session.

For some time, I've been registered on Linkedin ( http://www.linkedin.com and found it useful to make contact with past colleagues and as a source of contacts in our community.

I've added a new Linkedin group called, unsurprisingly, Test Management Forum. There are only a handful of members so far, but it's early days. Being a member of a group is useful if you want to make contact and connect with other people.

What is Agile Development? What does it involve? What are the concepts around managing, design, development, testing and measuring Agile?

In an attempt to answer the above questions I have pulled together the following mind map using information gathered from a number of sources and I wanted to share this information. In order to resolve the concepts thoughts and misconceptions, I pulled this information together into a Mind Map. The attached image contains my collated findings on Agile achieves my goal of defining "Agile on one page".

I'm an optimistic sort of fellow and I really thought that promotions like this:

http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1214245967_728.html?src=RU_bp_08_06_08...

... were fewer and further between in our industry.

Now I know it's foolish to think that technical people (with experience and relevant knowledge) will ever write marketing blurb (so it is credible), but it stil pains me to read this sort of thing.

"Top 10 Reasons to Implement Automated Application Quality Management"

This is valid for all types of Testers/QA Analysts regardless of skill set and experience. The following 5 steps will help you get started on a project. This could be the first ever project you've worked on or it could be your tenth. It doesn't matter. If you join a new project team or are starting a new project within the same team then give these 5 steps a go.