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Here is a great passage about vision for leaders: “Vision is everything for a leader.  It is utterly indispensable.  Why?  Because vision leads the leaders.  It paints the targets, sparks and fuels the fire within, and draws them forward.

This is a small growing compulation of great leadership quotes to think about. 

If implemented properly, the Quality Center will become an incredible resource for all your testing information in your test team and become the core for your test strategy & methodology.  Because of this it is extremely important for you to protect this information with not only proper security but to backup this information in order [...]

In an ideal environment all the defects found in a release would get fixed before the project went live in Production.  However with today’s fast paced businesses, projects are typically defined for a specifc delivery date with very little to no room for date extensions.  This is largely due to having to meet a business [...]

Recently the question “Are you scared of Change in Business?” was asked.  In my opinion, “Change” is a main ingredient to success; it is a very important and necessary component.  In order to be successful and advance with new technologies, economic variances and new industry requirements, regulations and/or transformations, a company and its leadership needs [...]

Tips on Being a Great Leader – Part 1 “Top 10 Leadership Characteristics” This is a topic that you could write a book on and there are in fact many books on leadership.  The idea of this blog is to create a short but concise blog series on this important topic.  As a manager in [...]

An interesting Test Management topic came up on LinkedIn that I responded to and thought I’d expand on it on my blog site. The question was “How can a test manager provide an accurate estimation like time, cost, resources for the test case creation, testing like Functional, regression and system testing for a large project?”

This blog article might seem to many people as a very basic topic and the content obvious. However I’m surprised at how often I still come across technology departments that do not have proper hardware environments for software development that maintains code integrity, security, isolation and Production similar configurations. Let’s discuss the basic high-level configuration [...]

This is part of my series on “What is QA really all about?”  I find that even today after all these years of sophistication in software development that organizations still don’t really understand what QA is really all about and what is truly involved in verifying that an application is ready for Production deployment.  As [...]

The Tester Interview I came across an interesting topic, it was a topic about what senior level QA Managers look for in hiring a software tester. I thought I would blog on this topic having numerous years of experience at the senior and executive levels (Director of QA, VP of QA, and President of ASI), [...]