Last year, I wrote about my first experience with SBTM, in collaboration with Mike Talks. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to use SBTM in the “real world”, on a client project that I was on for about six months. I’d like to reflect on that experience, and consider some of my learnings, […]
Category: Resources
SeConf and Our Transition to Paying Speakers’ Expenses
Guest post by Ashley Hunsberger and Marcus Merrell, co-chairs of the Selenium Conference Organizing Committee There’s a touchy subject in the Twittersphere these days around conferences that require speakers to pay to speak (or, #paytospeak). Cassandra Leung discusses in depth why she doesn’t pay to speak in her blog, raising some really […]
Writing Abstracts: Non-Advice from a Speaker and Reviewer
During my last two years as a professional software tester, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at conferences and events around the world, and have also reviewed hundreds of abstracts for a number of conferences. I recently saw a thread from Richard Bradshaw with his opinions on writing and reviewing abstracts for conferences […]
Preventing Interruptions with Sticky Notes
In software production, there are all kinds of techniques that utilise sticky notes. Whether it’s in a physical Kanban board, example mapping, risk storming, or just general reminders, we seem to like them a lot. At the Open Space day of TestBash Germany last year, I decided to use sticky notes in a […]
Why I Don’t Pay to Speak
This is a post I have planned to write for the best part of a year, and recent discussions have brought it back to the top of my to do list. This post is a way for me to collate my feelings about, and stance on, pay to speak. I also plan to […]