Knightly Builds

  1. The Testing Hero's Journey

    Video from my 2020 Romanian Testing Conference talk (originally planned as a workshop).

  2. Thinking About Product Strategy: Processing Signals from the Changing World

    In which I'm still focusing on The Market and staying abreast of the Changing World (and basically thinking out loud about the model of product management I'm working with and how to accomplish my goals as a PM).

  3. The Big Leap

    In his book The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks recommends making the jump from your Zone of Excellence to your Zone of Genius. I think this is great advice, so I thought I’d share it, along with some tips for doing so.

  4. Test Planning Simplified

    Don't bore or bamboozle your stakeholders with lengthy test plan documents. Use these leaner, simpler, more easily digestible options instead.

  5. Modeling and Thinking about Product Strategy Development: The Changing World

    How do you learn about the world or the marketplace in which your product and business are operating? How do you analyse the marketplace, and turn the results of your analysis into actionable insights?

  6. A Working Model for Thinking about Product Strategy Development

    I found a model I liked and repurposed it for representing what product management could/should/might look like. You can apply the model by continually asking the question 'What's really going on here?'

  7. 7 Things Awesome Testers do That Don’t Look Like Testing

    Testers do lots of stuff that doesn't look much like testing. Does it add value?

  8. Automating PDF's and Windows Objects with Python and Webdriver

    How I utilised Python & Webdriver along with the SWAPY library to carry out some complicated test automation

  9. Correlating Dynamic Values in JMeter

  10. Recording a Login Script with JMeter

    A series of tutorial blog posts covering some basic JMeter scripting -- a user journey through a web application; logging in, searching for and adding items to a basket, checking out.