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Metrics Matter: You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
Without process, you can’t measure your software testing team. And, without measurement, how can you know their true efficacy?
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Sharpening the Saw: Preventing Prejudice
This month, Jeff Van Fleet, Lighthouse President and CEO, takes on something we’re all guilty of (to some extent or another): prejudice.
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Technical Debt: Why IT Needs to Stop Fighting Fires and Start Preventing Them
IT is expected to correct defects within its software systems, but is often unable to keep up with defect backlogs due to the increasing…
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Test Early, Test Often: Why You Feel Great When You Automate
There’s no question that the 3 Perils of Software Development—Defects, Delays, and Dollars—can sink your projects in an instant. So how do you beat…
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Test Automation: The Mythical Compromise of Quality vs. Quantity
When it comes to software testing, most folks think they can’t have inexpensive, fast, and high quality all at once. And while that may…
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Why Cutting Quality is a Poor Path to Cost Savings
Software testing/quality assurance initiatives are often the first things cut from an encumbered budget. But, as expenses mount and software projects fail, many companies…
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Sharpening the Saw: Are You a Good Listener?
A new year means a new leadership topic for Jeff Van Fleet, Lighthouse President and CEO. In his first column of 2016, he’s digging…
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Truth in Numbers – How to Keep Positivity Bias From Sinking Your Software
Let’s face it: everyone tends to look at their work with rose-colored glasses. Unfortunately for IT personnel, this bias is especially dangerous to software…
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Sharpening the Saw: The Magic of the “Christmas Spirit”
It’s Christmas time, and Jeff Van Fleet, Lighthouse’s President and CEO, is feeling the spirit. How can we channel the fevered anticipation of the…
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Unsung Holiday Heroes – Why You Should be Thanking IT While You Shop This Season
This month, as you settle in to your comfiest leather armchair for some comfy Christmas shopping (with or without a glass of spiked eggnog),…
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Honoring Our Veterans
This Veteran’s Day, Jeff Van Fleet, Lightouse’s President and CEO, has a message for those that have served in our nation’s armed forces: thank…
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The Devil You Know: Why Software Quality is the Best Insurance Money Can Buy
Few things are riskier than a large-scale software project. While they offer significant returns if successful, they also pose considerable risk; threatening to go…
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