Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="">Maaret Pyhäjärvi</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/maaretp">@maaretp</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Maaret Pyhäjärvi talks with Dave Rael about coding and testing, self-focus and other-focus, empowering and enabling speakers, safety, and community </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a tester extraordinaire specializing in breaking illusions about software through means of exploratory testing. She is a software specialist with soft spots for hands-on testing, helping teams grow and building successful products and businesses. She identifies as an empirical technologist, a tester and a programmer, a catalyst for improvement, a speaker and an organizer. She works with a small product development team at Granlund Oy and teaches testing as her side job. She is the author of “Mob Programming Guidebook” and a regular blogger at http://visible-quality.blogspot.com. Maaret is also a serial volunteer for different non-profits driving forward the state of software development. She’s currently the chairman of Software Testing Finland ry, the main organizer for Agile Finland ry’s Tech Excellence Finland Meetup and the head organizer for European Testing Conference, aiming to change the world of non-profits and conferences to be more sustainable than pure volunteer organizations can ever be.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Maaret Pyhäjärvi</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Hands-on testing and perspectives</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Learning to appreciate perspectives</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Moving into continuous deployment</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's experiences with Mob Programming and learning about and from the team</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Valuing all opinions and voluntary participation in team activity</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Becoming uncomfortable in order to grow - Maaret as a programmer, confidence, and empowering others</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Mob Programming and safety for the individual</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Getting females (and everyone) excited for programming</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Maaret up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's stories of failure - employers with cultures that constrain thought and growth, individual performance to the detriment of the team</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's success story - becoming a champion for speakers and sharers of stories, empowering and enabling people with something to share</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Maaret stays current with what she needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Maaret most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret and conference speaking</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's greatest sources of pain</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Maaret likes geek out apart from software and testing</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Maaret's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Maaret</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Maaret's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://leanpub.com/mobprogrammingguidebook" target="_blank">Mob Programming Guidebook - Maaret Pyhäjärvi</a></li> <li><a href="https://leanpub.com/exploratorytesting" target="_blank">Exploratory Testing - Maaret Pyhäjärvi</a></li> <li><a href="http://europeantestingconference.eu/" target="_blank">European Testing Conference</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Tech-Excellence-Finland/" target="_blank">Tech Excellence Finland Meetup</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/testausyhdistys" target="_blank">Software Testing Finland</a></li> <li><a href="http://agile.fi/" target="_blank">Agile Finland</a></li> <li><a href="http://approvaltests.com/" target="_blank">Approval Tests</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/episode-067-llewellyn-falco-must-ship-it" target="_blank">Llewellyn Falco on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/episode-054-woody-zuill-turn-up-the-good" target="_blank">Woody Zuill on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1934356808/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Cucumber Book - Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/episode-016-matt-wynne-strong-communication-and-passionate-dedication" target="_blank">Matt Wynne (Cucumber Book Author) on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/episode-022-aslak-hellesoy-testing-your-understanding" target="_blank">Aslak Hellesøy (Cucumber Book Author) on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/2014/06/llewellyns-strong-style-pairing.html" target="_blank">Llewellyn Falco - strong-style pairing (Driver, Navigator Model)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke and Clarke's three laws</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/spkeazee" target="_blank">Speak Easy</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Maaret's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471081124/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach - Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Maaret's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Know yourself</li> <li>Learn about the world and see things being done with software outside your context</li> <li>Plan less, do more</li> </ol> </div> </div>
