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• Conscientious Uncertification
• 7 days ago
• I’m thinking of having badges made which say “Conscientiously Uncertified.” It’s for those of us who want to resist the dumbing down of our craft by cynical consultants promoting bogus tester certification programs.
  
  For me, when I see that someone is certified as CSTE, ISEB, ISTQB, or CSTQE, I immediately think “there goes someone who was bullied into comp ...

• A View From Inside ISTQB
• 11 days ago
• Alan Richardson writes this commentary from inside one of the stupidest of the certification programs: the ISTQB.
  
  Long ago I also tried to change a certification program from the inside. I also failed. Now I do my best to cultivate the community of people who rise above it. As Alan points out, rising above can be difficult, because of all the poor fools who’ve been duped into bel ...

• Draft Complete!
• 41 days ago
• My new book is done! Sort of.
  
  I finally have a complete draft of How I Learn Stuff: Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar.
  
  All I need now is a publisher.
  
  I had the idea for a book like this 26 years ago (original title: “School Kills”). I had the idea for this specific book 18 years ago. The oldest text in the book was written 10 years ago. The basic archi ...

• What if Software Development isn’t Golf?
• 76 days ago
• Jason Gorman uses a golf analogy to talk about estimation.
  
  I like his analogy, but he didn’t take it far enough for me. He left out a key element: we may not be playing golf.
  
  A typical sin committed by people who do studies of schedule slippages is to discuss average amounts of time to do X or Y while only considering cases where X or Y were successfully completed. Wh ...

• Technical Debt Peer Conference
• 76 days ago
• Matt Heusser is having a peer conference. I believe it’s his first.
  
  It’s on the topic of technical debt.
  
  The idea of technical debt seems to be that there are tasks you are free to neglect when building a technical artifact such as software, but if you neglect those tasks, you will incur a sort of “debt” that weighs on you in the form of nagging prob ...