Alternative topic: Specification Review tips

I was recently analyzing how I do specification review. I discovered that Edvard De Bono is completely right that Critical Thinking is Excellent but it is not enough. I believe I’m using what he calls lateral thinking to obtain more ideas

There's been a lot of controversy on the schools of software testing lately, in Paul Gerrard's blog here and here and here; in James Bach's blog here and to some extent here, and on the software-testing mailing list. I also had a pleasant chat with Paul Gerrard at coffee break and lunch today at EuroSTAR 2008.

So the results are in and - NEWSFLASH - it looks like my session proposal on scaling up code reviews using automated analysis has been accepted for Software Practice Advancement 2009.

What with that, the Software Craftsmanship conference I'm launching, and my annual electro-shock therapy, the first quarter of 2009 could be pretty busy for one Senor Gormando.

In a recent issue of the HBR, I read The Making of an Expert by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely. In the article, the authors outline their research on the topic of building expertise within a specific area. I’ve followed Ericsson’s work in the past, and have written on this [...]

How times have changed!

Or have they?

Rob Bowley from BBC Worldwide pointed me to the just-this-very-nanosecond published programme for SPA2009.

And I looked at the session titles and the names of the presenters and wondered how much the conference has changed in the last, say, decade.