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Measurements and Goals

I think this blog post about metrics vs. measurement gets to the heart of the problem with SMART goals. If M is defined to require a metric instead of a measurement, you end up with a lot of extraneous, wasteful busy-work (surveys, presentations, numbers of words/pages/LOCs, etc.) that detract from actually doing what you want [...]

Tester brain vs. end-user brain

As an end user, it is easy to miss bugs, or to shrug bugs off as a mysterious anomaly of the software. For the past several months, I’ve noticed that when I am reading mail in Outlook’s three-pain view, grouped by From, if I drag/drop a group of messages to another folder, I appear to [...]