Last weekend was the AgileCoachCamp 2012 (#accde12) in Rückersbach, Germany. I got lucky and my spot on the waiting list came through. Willingness to share a double room with a stranger surely helped. The seminar place was marvelous. It had more than half a dozen rooms for sessions and also two forum sized rooms for […]
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We are happy to announce another great community event for Agilistos (agile interested persons). In November are the Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany and it has become an ever increasing stream of participants, which is fabulous in itself. For those interested for discussions not covered by the conference and with the opportunity not to
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Schwer zu glauben, das der erste GATE Workshop (German Agile Testing and Exloratory) schon über ein halbes Jahr zurück liegt… Im Oktober 2011 starteten wir unsere Vision, einen Ableger einer Community Veranstaltung zu schaffen, welche es weltweit gibt und auch in Europa in einigen Ländern erfolgreich gestartet ist. Unsere Vision einer Low Budget, Non-Profit Veranstaltung
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We are proud to announce the call for contributions for the second GATE workshop. It will be held in Munich, Germany on September 8th 2012. The main theme for the second workshop will be The future of Agile and Exploratory Testing We expect participants to submit content in line with this theme. We are interested
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What happened in the last year since I last wrote on this blog? Well, I was in a stage of being unhappy in my last job and that also distracted me from many other things. Now I a few months into my new job and found the inner peace again to write some blog posts.
Ab gestern ist es offiziell: Markus Gärtner und ich organisieren den ersten deutschen Workshop zum Agilen und Explorativen Testen am ersten Oktoberwochenende 2011 (01 – 02.10.2011). Der Workshop wird unter dem Namen “GATE – German Agile Testing and Exloratory Workshop” veranstaltet und findet erstmalig in Hamburg, Deutschland statt. Ab heute können Einsendungen für Beiträge und
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I was thinking about something today (soon you will know) and then thought “Hm, what would others say?”. The questions arose: What do I see in my head, if I think “Color + Testing”? Immediately RED and GREEN springs in my mind. Probably conditioned from the ominous “PASS/FAIL” visuals (addentum: I should write FAIL/PASS, since
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This heuristic can be used for all devices which makes use of orientation modes. Do you know PACO? He is the senior brother of PAOLO: NEW: Introducton of Communication aspect Portrait, Audio, Communication, Overlay Portrait: Orientation is one of the big features of the current device generation. Portrait, portrait upside-down, landscape left and landscape right
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In 2010 I read a blog post about it takes like 10.000 hours of practice in a profession to become a master in it. This quote seems to be taken from the Book „Outliers“ from Malcom Gladwell. This instigated me to form a special kind of New Year resolution for 2011; that is to track
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This heuristic can be used for all devices which makes use of orientation modes. Do you know PAOLO? He is a nice guy, as long as you don’t interfere with his expectations: (Update: Also have a look at his brother: PACO) Portrait, Audio, Objects , Landscape, Overlay Portrait: Does it support different display modes? How
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