Fake screenshot alert! The message, my opinion, is very real though. All software consultants (with Finnish rate card) should invoice at least 100 euros.
Newer needs support and training, on their employees dime.
When customers switch contractors, consultants need time to find the next gig.

It's coming up, and I can't wait: #FroGSConf. A week from now, Saturday. I have a hands-on session in mind I want to run on #testing, but I also would like to do one on #QualityEngineering and the practical change to allow quality to be everyone's business. frogsconf.nl - it's free.

There's appearance of success (local stories of success), without sustainable success over time in #TestAutomation. So I gave them labels and one-liners because this style of thinking helps me structure my ideas.

#Saavutettavuus #Suomi. Käynnissä kaksi merkittävää laajennosta: uusi direktiivi ja uusi tulkinta. Toimenpiteet tiivistettynä: saavutettavuus kuntoon, saavutettavuusseloste kuntoon, ja aktiivinen raportointi puutteista.

Earlier this week, I was reminded of thinking of test strategy 10 years ago, with an experience report at a peer conference. Then I coined four ideas:
Knowing product. Delivering professionally. Actionable information first. Releasing in production when done.
The last included building capability.

The first idea that drives testing is *testing is bigger than testing of apps*. You know, the fact that I am a tester yet I test ideas, organizations and sometimes people's patience. A common way of describing this is to point at every stage of DevOps cycle and say "you test here".

In preparation for 'Testing strategies for business resilience 2025' today (info.saucelabs.com/business-res...), I am revisiting ideas that drive testing = strategy.

I have been collecting and structuring ideas that drive change, in mostly four categories.

Found a few positive affirmations from people from my images. This one serves as a point of action to the future as well. Making people awesome is always, always a worthwhile goal.

My style of looking at world is descriptive. A lot of the feedback I get from my posts is that people confuse it as absolute truth for all projects, in prescriptive frame. Recognizing that everything needs that frame has been helpful and I need to learn to be more comfortable with prescriptive.

In 2024 I wrote 62 blog posts, ended up with 200k page views, with now totaling at 1,108,719 page views. So today I wonder if writing less would be a good goal. Quality of connections, over quantity.

My blog is at visible-quality.blogspot.fi

Siloed skills of testing just don't cut it these days. Lead who can't do is a no go. Automator who can't test we seem to have a lot of. Testers not learning automation are dropping out, even the ones good at testing.

We have one significant ICT magazine in Finland, and for 22nd time, they published #TiVi ICT 100 Influencers list. I am delighted to represent #Testing on this list for 6th consecutive year. My title now is 'Director, CGI', but my work is still taking forward software testing in/from Finland.

Update on my talk statistics for this year. I quit speaking in 2023 and quit quitting in 2024.

The first thing to change a default is to make it visible. Then you change the value.

The fact that GitHub Copilot models world with paying less for female PhD students is much less concerning to me than the idea that we would accept the default when made visible when the change is one variable.

Two days, two conferences, two talks. Seven new talks, each on different topics, done in November.
A bit of listening. A lot of disagreement. And good amount of conversation on what better looks like for our specific work contexts.

Nobody trusts the green smiley. They know the easiest route to green is insufficient information and even mistakes in how things are wired up. The trust comes from looking inside.

Today, the annual CGI Testing Days. A few talks, a bit of socializing and group learning. Tomorrow #TAHelsinki and this conferencing continues.