Comments for James King

Comment on Succession planning as an idea whose time has come by James King

James King — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:18:32 +0000

Good point. I have often met people who think they have mastered their role, but don’t really seem to do it very well. And surprisingly I have found the opposite just as often – people who are not very confident but are actually exceptional. That topic is definitely a rich one for development discussions and succession planning

Comment on Succession planning as an idea whose time has come by Trent Brown

Trent Brown — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:52:13 +0000

James another question of relevance is ‘how experienced do they think they are in the role?’ often people’s perception of themselves is different to others, often despite feedback to contrary (positive and negative). This can affect retention and people comfort in taking a higher role. Personally I have had both senarios and of them often the people without the belief in themselves and their skills are the harder ones to convince and the greatest risk in succession planning.

Comment on A project charter for lazy teams by Captain Crom

Captain Crom — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:49:26 +0000

Great stuff – thanks James

Comment on A simple product summary to help requirements by Regression testing – day 1 « James King

Regression testing – day 1 « James King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:18 +0000

[...] down and discuss the users of the system you are building and the product you are [...]

Comment on User stories for production support part 2: PAC by Regression testing – day 1 « James King

Regression testing – day 1 « James King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:15 +0000

[...] down and discuss the users of the system you are building and the product you are [...]

Comment on A project charter for lazy teams by Regression testing – day 1 « James King

Regression testing – day 1 « James King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:12 +0000

[...] the project charter if there is one, otherwise sit down and create [...]

Comment on Scenario testing the cycle of pain for regression testing by Regression testing – day 1 « James King

Regression testing – day 1 « James King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:10 +0000

[...] testing is the easy part of IT development, not the horrible monster some people think it has to [...]

Comment on Making regression testing suck less and yet be more effective – exploratory testing by An international standard for being stupid? The mistakes users always make « James King

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:00:01 +0000

[...] I would like assume every developer, BA and tester would do some simple exploratory testing as they add features and I would assume that every team would do some regular regression testing as [...]

Comment on Scenario testing the cycle of pain for regression testing by An international standard for being stupid? The mistakes users always make « James King

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:59:59 +0000

[...] find that even though I am not a tester, I can often break applications in regression testing by assuming my users will comply with the standard for being stupid at least once or [...]

Comment on An international standard for being scared? by An international standard for being stupid? The mistakes users always make « James King

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:59:56 +0000

[...] occur in the process when one of the things happened in the list. So I combined this with the “international standard for being scared” (FMEA) to find I could tear most processes apart and find errors really [...]