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Don't Go Chasing Waterfall to Guide Your Agile Testing

January 29, 2025 Agile, being agile, agile value

New Year Blog

Happy New Year! Every year I, and many others, try to set up resolutions which we tend to fail at after a very short period of time. As an agile coach, I find myself needing to practice what I preach (AKA eating my own dog food), especially when it comes to working iteratively and empirically along with embracing change. As workers, we need to consider who our customers are and how we can better serve them, focused on delivering the most value. Even on the home front there is room for...

January 23, 2025 Agile, being agile, agile value

The Second-Best Resume Tip I Know and Why It Will Make Yours Stand Out

August 9, 2023 zenergy leadership

Our Future AI Overlord’s Take on Agile

Our Future AI Overlord’s Take on Agile ChatGPT is one of those things I see popping up more and more in my newsfeed and various social media platforms. Out of morbid curiosity about the potential benevolence of our future AI overlords, I decided to see what it had to say about agile. I typed in the following prompt: “Briefly describe how to successfully implement an agile transformation.” I was pleasantly surprised by the AI’s response. Below are the five keys to a successful agile...

January 24, 2023 Agile

Agile Mindset: The Biggest Impediment to...

Agile Mindset: The Biggest Impediment to... The 2022 Agile Coaching Report sat in my inbox for almost two months until I finally reviewed it in detail a few days ago. Several areas were worthy of a deeper dive, but one particularly struck me. The report's preface reads: "Notably, coaches believe the biggest impact they are making is in shifting an organization towards an agile mindset and culture. Interestingly, they also find this to be the most challenging shift to make and one of the biggest...

September 19, 2022 Agile

Agile Mastery Begins with Personal Mastery

Are You the Ideal Candidate to Lead Agile Change? The concept of Agile tends to be overrun with buzzwords, but the key is truly about focusing on one thing--Having the right mindset. Before someone can become an agile master, it’s important for them to take a step back and determine if they are willing to become a leader of change.

December 15, 2021 Agile

Integrating Performance Testing into your DevOps Pipeline

The Typical CI/CD Pipeline What comes to mind when you think of a mature CI/CD pipeline? Many people think of an automated process consisting of build, test, and deploy stages. Yet, there is always room for improvement, and there are useful quality steps many organizations tend to overlook. Let's focus on the testing stage of this process. What kinds of tests should be run during this stage? Perhaps a mixture of unit testing, API testing, and UI testing? It’s also likely there’d be some...

December 1, 2021

ADHD, Accessibility, and Me

I always struggled in school as far back as I can remember. Not in every subject though. I thrived in science, computers, and art and was often referred to as a daydreamer, quirky, or creative kid in class. Fast forward a bit where I spent most of my 20s in and out of doctors’ offices for my mental and physical health. Attempting a BFA in Graphic Design, living on my own, working 2 part-time jobs…it was too much. I didn’t understand why everything seemed so overwhelming. What was I doing...

June 4, 2021 Mobile Testing, Testing, Accessibility, software testing

Three Things Not to Worry about in your Digital Transformation

A common question for leadership is… What keeps you up at night? I hear it asked all the time. And the reactions run the gamut from thoughtful and deeply reflective to reactive and highly emotional. One of the common factors I nearly always hear is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Which is why I wanted to share this article with leaders considering or engaging in a Digital Transformation. I’ll begin with three things that are often misconstrued and cause sleeplessness on the part of many...

May 6, 2021 Agile, agile leadership roles, Digital Transformation

Velocity: the Number’s not Important… the Learning Is

Back in 1996 I took up golf. I was terrible at it. Like most people who take up a new hobby, I spent a good bit of time (and money) trying to improve.

April 13, 2021 agile technique, Agile, agile leadership roles

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