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On Sponsorship

June 9, 2020

Over on Twitter, Dare Obasanjo made an excellent point about the difference between mentoring and sponsorship: One thing I see tech companies get wrong is that they think POC need mentors when what they actually need is sponsorship. A mentor is a coach whereas a sponsor advocates for their protégés to get them bigger projects […]

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I Prefer This Over That

May 17, 2015

A couple weeks ago I tweeted: I prefer: – Recovery over Perfection – Predictability over Commitment – Safety Nets over Change Control – Collaboration over Handoffs — ElisabethHendrickson (@testobsessed) May 6, 2015 Apparently it resonated. I think that’s more retweets than anything else original I’ve said on Twitter in my seven years on the platform. […]

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Diverse Discussions

November 19, 2012

So, there’s another round of gender/race drama going down on teh intarwebs. It seems that there was a conference, BritRuby, slated to run next year in Manchester, England. Only there was some criticism on Twitter of their all-white-guy lineup. Suddenly, without warning, the organizers canceled the conference. The organizers published an official statement on the […]

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Testing Has No Value

November 14, 2012

Update Nov 20: minor edits to increase clarity. Yesterday, Rob Lambert tweeted: “Testing, as an activity by itself, has no business value” — Rob Lambert (@Rob_Lambert) November 12, 2012 Turns out that’s a statement from the ISTQB Expert Level Syllabus on Test Management. Robert was tweeting it to see what others’ reactions were to the […]

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The #notagile Twitter Stream

February 24, 2009

It had already been a frustrating morning. Too little sleep, and too little coffee. Squabbling kids. Traffic. Parents who didn’t know how to use the carpool lane at school and just stopped in the middle of the road, holding up traffic for 5 minutes while Junior fetched his lunchbox from the depths of the giant […]

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