Leader’s Pulse: Part 2: Managing the Knowledge Worker

By Michael Hackett | Mar 28, 2017December 7, 2020 | Training

Michael Hackett Michael is a co-founder of LogiGear Corporation, and has over two decades of experience in software engineering in banking, securities, healthcare and consumer electronics. Michael is a Certified Scrum Master and has co-authored two books on software testing. Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems (Wiley, 2nd …

Same or Different? Retrospectives and Post-Mortems

By Michael Hackett | May 1, 2011November 25, 2019 | Test Methods & Metrics

Let’s look at a few distinctions between the two process improvement practices that make all the difference in their usefulness for making projects and job situations better! An extreme way to look at the goals of these practices is: what makes your work easier (retrospective) versus what did someone else decide is best practice (post-mortem)? …