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I’ll be at PNSQC in Portland, Oregon from 8-10 October, 2012. I’m very excited to be attending – my paper on “Are We Failing at UI Automation?” was selected by the conference, so I’ll be hosting a session to discuss my points about the topic. The PNSQC folks are still offering up a $350 Early Bird discount which you can take advantage of here. Please drop me a line if you’re going to be attending. I’d love to meet up and talk testing! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author ...

While I was in London last week, Telerik’s UK Country Manager and I took some time to visit the Google Campus, a massive co-working and startup incubation space. There are six floors of co-working space where you can apply to be a resident if you are a startup based in London and an awesome cafeteria/coffee shop where anyone can come in for the day. On the top floor is Google’s offices. Even though Telerik has a London office, we registered online and spent a day working at the co-work space, mostly to get a feel for the co-work space and check out the scene. (Also, Telerik’s KendoUI was...

In this episode, I sit down with Microsoft MVP Lee Brandt to discuss the difficulties in communication and collaboration amongst project teams as well as with people outside of the project team. Lee offers some great ideas on why the problems arise and how to improve the communications gap.

Have you ever played the “Telephone Game”? The way it works is simple. Line everyone up, and say a phrase to the first person. That person (and each person in turn) repeats that phrase from memory to the next person in line. When the last person gets the phrase, he/she compares it to the original phrase. Almost every time, what comes out the other end is fairly mangled. Take the same group of people, and have them form a circle. Stand in the middle of the circle, and say the same phrase. Now have each of the people repeat the ...