I spend a lot of time as a manager looking for good candidates for my teams.  I am often asked what I am looking for.  Obviously this depends a lot on the project and the area of the stack I own but there are always a set of attributes that I include in my search for my quality […]

So, what do we do about this perception of Dev’s being more technical than testers? My first inclination is to address this from the perspective of Microsoft since I work there but I am going to refrain and make this more global in thinking.  I figured I would start by calling out some observations (there […]

I have spent a considerable amount of time talking with my wife Marianne on what I should do my first blog post about. She gets to hear all of my praises, rants, and questions as I perform my job as a Principal Quality Lead at Microsoft. Our discussions around specifics about my project have been […]