It’s been a while since I’ve posted a book review on my blog. I still read quite a bit (My reading list on linkedin) but with my new gig at SOASTA I had to prioritize some of my activities But this book was so good that I wanted to share it with you all. It’s [...]
Damn ! I just realized that my latest article is almost 1 month old ! This is unacceptable for my trusted readers and as I spend a night in London I decided to share one of my latest read. I did read during the past months but for once, I indulged myself with some great [...]
Thanks to some well deserved vacation, I was able to finish a book I’ve started a while back: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. I had 2 main interests in the reading of this book. The first one was related to the time I’ve spent in the Silicon Valley from 1998 until 2006, [...]
From a knowledge availability standpoint, being involved in testing in 2009 is probably much easier than 15 years ago. The community is not only larger but also, thanks to the Internet, able to share easily and broadly to a large audience. While there are some excellent commercial books on any testing topics (It is becoming [...]
I finally had a chance to finish reading Richard Branson’s biography: Losing my virginity. After Jack Welsh, Branson was on my top 10 business leaders list and after reading his 600+ pages bio, he’s probably not far from the top. What an amazing read ! To my surprise, it really reads as a novel and [...]
I’ve always picked up quite a bit of management and business knowledge by observing and talking to leaders around me. I’ve been fairly lucky so far and have been regularly surrounded by people who impressed and inspired me. They all helped me in one way or another to get better at what I’m doing. Another [...]
As part of my professional growth and training, I spend quite a bit of free time reading books on various subjects. These days I’m particularly attracted by the business shelf. I get technical growth directly on web article and conference (online and live test conference. More on this in a future post) but nothing replace [...]
