Today a hero of mine is retiring from his career at Microsoft and he had some parting wisdom that I just have to post.  Awesome stuff.

Ripping off the Band Aid (Hope its not a Tourniquet!!) Software Development organizations in today’s industry are having to move fast and adapt to the landscape that says you need to get out first or get left behind.  While this is largely true some of the “Bigs” are knee jerking with strong adjustments to engineering […]

We have been taking a step back lately and taking a little inventory.  One of the things I have been suggesting is that as our ability to leverage data collected from usage grows the less dedicated testers we will need. There are 2 primary objectives for a Quality Team, in my opinion: The first bullet […]

Please read the previous blogs to get some context to this post…although not entirely necessary it will help. The last nine years at Microsoft (been here 14 but the last 9 have been in management) I have been working to achieve the ultimate dev/test engineering paradigm on the teams I have been Group Quality Manager […]

Starting with this post I am moving to a new line of blogging which starts to talk about how to ensure software quality with imbedded or combined test/dev engineering.  I am convinced that this is the best way to engineer software and more and more companies/development houses including Microsoft are starting to agree with me. […]

I don’t do this very often but I am going to brag a little bit.  Applying the engineering practices I have been talking about in this blog is showing huge results.  My current team owns the most fundamental pieces of our product yet our issue (bug) count only represents %4 of the overall bug rate […]

As those of you know who have been reading my blog I have been wading through what it means to be in test in this software industry.  Things are starting to gel more and more.  Through this journey I think I have a couple of statements I can make.  Not fact – just my opinion. […]

I know, it has been two weeks since my last post but I am happy to say that life has gotten in the way.  I just had a Birthday this week that was awesome – even though I am a year older.  My wife whisked me away for a night with just the two us […]

I have been putting this off but no more… Data, Telemetry, Instrumentation, and Flighting are the new buzzwords…ok, at least the ones I am hearing about around the campfire at the moment.  What is weird is that this has been part of what I do for the last 9 years or so.  We have data […]

Being that I am having trouble sleeping tonight I decided to go ahead and use this time to get my blog out for this week (sorry it is late).  As most of you know Microsoft went through some tough layoffs last week.  This hit everyone in the company in different ways.  Some obviously found themselves […]