Knightly Builds

  1. On Signals & Noise

    And my many failures to correctly distinguish between the two...

  2. On Unplanned Work

    How to cope when everything changes

  3. How to Handle Change in Your Team

    Strategies for Coping with Uncomfortable Growth

  4. To Automate or not to Automate your Tests?

    Some guidelines to help decide which and whether or not to automate tests in pursuit of a continuous testing outcome.

  5. How to get Product Management Stuff Done in the Face of an Endless Barrage of Other Demands and Firefighting Activities

    TLDR; Prioritise, timebox, constrain, distribute, automate, document, and be flexible about your research activities.

  6. Test-Planning-Simplified-Webinar

    Video from my Test Planning Simplified webinar with the TestRail team

  7. Cunning Strategies for Becoming a First Class Noticer

    This is one of the joys of my work, in the field of professional testing. The exploration of things. Software, systems, artifacts. Always questioning. Always seeking answers. Always trying to dig a little bit deeper.

  8. Cunning Strategies for Effective Remote Working

    Working 100% remote can be challenging. The tips in this post work for me. If you’re struggling in some area of working remotely, perhaps there’s an idea here for you?

  9. Cunning Strategies for Getting out of a Testing Rut

    The brain is a funny thing. Incredibly powerful of course, but also with annoying tendencies to get stuck in ruts or grooves of comfortable thinking.

  10. Systems not Goals

    Instead of having a specific target or objective, I try to implement a system for actually getting things done instead. In this post I'll give you a few examples of what I mean.