Once upon a time, I was a full-time employee of a big multi-national. I spent 11 years in that company, 10 of them managing groups of test engineers, developers, and quality assurance (process) engineers. We had a "conference budget" which allowed a small percentage of employees to attend international conferences every year. I was a

For those of you who attended my presentation at SIGiST 2008, below are the results of the Ambiguity Review exercise that you all did :-) Sorry about the length of this post - even by MY standards it's a bit long. But if you're into Quality in particular, and

OK, you've heard me talk in length about the presentations that I listened to all the way through SIGiST Israel 2008. You've even (hopefully) read my post about Vipul Kocher's keynote. Well, unfortunately, some of the keynotes should really take a lesson from the presentations. True, in many cases, keynotes are

I must say that I had fun giving this presentation, and I guess that the audience felt it too. Requirements Review - it sounds dreadfully boring. Months ago, when I was asked to speak, I thought "what can I do to make it a bit more interesting?". I came up with the idea of involving

If you didn't guess, I'm talking about MY Presentation for SIGiST Israel 2008! After a very good keynote speech (separate post on the keynotes coming up soon), it was time for me to brave the crowd. I will admit to being a tad nervous. I've given dozens of presentations in the past, but mostly to "friendly" audiences,