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The Colorful and Gray World of Engineering Management

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Embark with me on my journey through the colorful situations & challenges and the (gray) ambiguity of management in the software industry.

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2017 1

  1. Starters vs. Closers

2016 3

  1. Ambiguity Can Be Your Friend
  2. Book Review on: "Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind" by 99U
  3. 7 Mistakes New Managers Should Avoid

2015 8

  1. Stop Hoping for Quality and Just Test It!
  2. 6 Ways for Engineers to Connect with Their Customers
  3. Quality First
  4. It's Not Over, Till It's Over
  5. Clean Up Your Campsite!
  6. Sprint to the Finish!
  7. DevOps, The Art of Walking in Someone Else's Shoes
  8. Don't Call My Baby Ugly

2014 3

  1. What's Your New Currency?
  2. How Many Days Away Are You?
  3. Imperfection is the Way to Agility!

2013 8

  1. Sometimes At Work, We Act Like Dogs
  2. Are You Aware That You Lack Awareness?
  3. It Doesn't Take Muscles to Use Your Strengths
  4. Experienced to the Level of Obsolete
  5. Superheroes Don't Work at Corporations
  6. Advice From Your 95 year old Self
  7. Good News!
  8. Fixing What's Not Broken

2012 12

  1. The toughest question you can ask, isn't tough enough
  2. Integrity With a Dose of Confidence Part2
  3. Integrity With a Dose of Confidence
  4. How Important is the "How"?
  5. What are your intentions?
  6. I Scream, You Scream, We're All Testing!
  7. Vision Without Action is a Daydream, Action Without Vision is a Nightmare
  8. A Routine Life is Boring, But Routine Work is Awesome!
  9. Anitag
  10. Transformers are Leaders, not Toys!
  11. If You Want It, Then You Aren't Ready For It
  12. Training Your Manager

2011 13

  1. The Observer of Perception
  2. Ignorance is Bliss
  3. What are Testers Thankful For?
  4. 17 on 17
  5. Over-functioning is Not Job Security
  6. Boogie Boarding on the Job
  7. What I Like About Blogging and Much More
  8. The Tactics of Making a Strategy
  9. Are you up for the challenge?
  10. Build It and They Will Come!...Really?
  11. QA or Test - does the name really matter?
  12. What would you do?
  13. No Surprises!

2010 16

  1. Play Some Interference
  2. There's No Room For Watermelons
  3. Everyone Wants To Test
  4. Crawl, Walk, Run
  5. Me, My Car, and a Thump
  6. The Tale of Two Teams
  7. Do you need a career mentor?
  8. Recruiting - it's not just an open job position, it's an adventure!
  9. Tribal Knowledge and Engineering Don't Mix
  10. Speak up to succeed
  11. Don't Be Seduced by the Dark Side
  12. No Crystal Ball Required
  13. Sometimes Things Just Aren't Fair
  14. Mistake or Trend?
  15. Obsolete Yourself!
  16. Put on Your Game Face

2009 17

  1. More on Playing With Fire
  2. Going Dark
  3. Cooking with Windows
  4. 15 Years Ago Today
  5. Do Whatever It Takes!
  6. Commitment Calibration
  7. Action-oriented vs. Results-driven
  8. Test is not a landfill
  9. Should BVTs pass 100%?
  10. Evaluating Your Employees
  11. Successful growth of a tester
  12. Guidelines for writing good individual review comments
  13. The perpetual state of being understaffed - does it really exist?
  14. Downward, upward, and sideways
  15. Clones don't make good testers
  16. Automation maturity - what should a Test Manager focus on?
  17. Business-focused vs. People-focused managers