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Ep 57: Don’t go chasing waterfalls

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This week is a guest episode! While I was in Liverpool for Liverpool Tester Gathering (http://www.meetup.com/Liverpool-Tester-Gathering/), I managed to grab some of Leigh Rathbone’s time for a couple of episodes! This is the first one and is about transitioning from Waterfall to Agile, with a focus on testers and test teams. We cover the pros

Ep 51: Leave No Trace

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If you’ve been following the soccer/football news last month1, you’ll have seen that that last match of the season at Old Trafford was suspended due to a suspicious package found in a toilet. After a controlled explosion, it was discovered that the suspicious package was one that was left in the stadium after a training

Ep 47 – Beyond Unreasonable Doubt

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As I said last week, I’m going to talk about unreasonable doubt. ‘Unreasonable’ doubt (for these purposes) is when you doubt your own abilities wrongly – imposter syndrome, or under estimating your own abilities, maybe due to inexperience. Sometimes this can be a good thing; doubt about a skillset you have can be a motivator