This is a post born out of the fact I had been musing on the sheer amount of friends, relations and ex-colleagues having babies lately. I work as a software tester so am in the habit of creating tenuous links where no sane person would see one existing. Please bear with me.
 
It occurred to me during this musing that babies are quite like software.
 
Think about the planning for a prospective project. Ideally the planning for a software development project should always be done during the time that the developers are writing the code, so that once the first iteration of development is completed, the next [...]

I’m Elizabeth and I am the KnowledgeMill tester.
This is a role easily understood by those who know and appreciate what a tester does. Most people do not understand what a tester does and everyone else does not appreciate what a tester does.
My son J (aged 7) recently filled in a survey from school about the jobs his immediate family did, so he put down:
Uncle B: Makes iPods
Uncle H: Makes money
Uncle O: Is taking a break from work (I said he was an unemployed bum but in a rare fit of diplomacy, perhaps brought on my fear of his teacher, J [...]