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QA is the sound of conscience
Ahmed El-Deeb
While everybody is focused on producing an ld releasing, QA is focused on the how of producing and releasing. The how is the conscience – the voice that would question or stop those folks from ruining customers’ experience with your product. How to be that voice of conscience? 1) be knowledgeable about the situation or […]
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Don’t be afraid to create tools
Ahmed El-Deeb
In your daily operations, you will find yourself doing a lot of manual stuff: tracking jira metrics, analyzing some numbers, or updating tickets with routine checks. Is there a tool you can build to automate that for you? Don’t think that tools must be done for big operations and don’t think that tools have to […]
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Be Useful to the Team Everyday
Ahmed El-Deeb
Some work items takes a slow roast for some time before it can yield results. This is great: to create in-depth contribution. However, every day there are low-hanging fruits; a service or something useful you do to others: unblock someone, raise a good question, share the right level of information, answer a question… etc. Being […]
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You are also a Project Manager
Ahmed El-Deeb
I recall the time period when tech people used to be disorganized and take pride in saying “I am not good in PM stuff” – well because they are the tech guys. If you internally have this viewpoint, kill it. To be effective tech person, you need to Project Manage your stuff. But this also […]
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How impactful are you?
Ahmed El-Deeb
An integral part of my interviews is that I ask candidates after discussing each single experience or action they did: what were the results? How did you measure your action? And to my disappointment, most candidates reply with the simple consequence one would expect out of an action. For example, I introduced performance testing for […]
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Bug Statistics
Ahmed El-Deeb
I once heard that quality of a deliverable is not the sum of its bugs; that is, bugs don’t determine the quality of what you ship. Followers of such thought treated bugs with pure coldness and focused on whether their product is usable or not. If they can do x, y, and z; then, we […]