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Tag: Neurodiversity

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(Mis)Using Personas with the Seven Dwarfs

13th September 201930th September 2019 Cassandra H. Leung Leave a comment

  This is the companion blog post to my talk at TestBash Germany 2019 – (Mis)Using Personas with the Seven Dwarfs.   Here are the slides and persona pack for the “dwarf personas” to get you started with (mis)using personas in your projects.  Watch the talk for free now.   I’m unfortunately too busy / […]

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Call for Collaboration | Identity Stories #0

17th April 201917th April 2019 Cassandra H. Leung 4 Comments

  “I fear that posting this will have negative consequences for me, but I feel more strongly that I need to share this experience and raise awareness.”   It’s been a year and a half since I shared my story of Sexual Harassment in Tech & the Testing Community.  It was an extremely difficult thing […]

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Neurodiversity and My Problem with WIP Limits for Creative Work

6th April 20189th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 4 Comments

  On a recent project with a client, I helped the development team to implement a work in progress (WIP) limit.  As the team got used to working towards finishing things before starting to work on new user stories, there was a noticeable improvement in the flow and pace of stories that were ready to […]

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Preventing Interruptions with Sticky Notes

13th February 20189th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 3 Comments

    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 […]

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Tester Interviews: Techniques and Tasks

17th July 20177th April 2021 Cassandra H. Leung 11 Comments

    This post is inspired by a recent discussion on the The Club at Ministry of Testing.   Edit: It has also been translated into Russian on Software-Testing.RU.  Please note that this translation was not requested, proofed, or approved by me.  I bear no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the translated post. […]

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