a good magician never lies.
He knows where people aren’t looking.
That’s usually where the useful things are. The small signal before the big problem. The assumption sitting quietly inside a beautiful report. The strange sentence in the meeting that nobody wrote down.
This is my home base.
I write about quality, testing, and the human decisions behind software delivery. Sometimes I also collect light on a small sensor. Other people call it photography. It all lives here.
You are probably here because something feels off.
A project can be green on slides and still be sick. A team can be busy and still be behind. A product can pass every test and still let down the people using it.
That gap is the mystical middle I keep poking at.
I started as a tester. Over time I got more and more interested in what people actually mean when they say words like quality, agility, done. Because these words don’t mean a checkbox, or a phase. They mean something messier, and that’s the part worth arguing about.
Will I keep asking what the words we use every day in IT actually mean? .
I’ve taken a run at defining quality properly. If that interests you, start here. Agility I’m still chewing on. Unfinished, like I said.
I see, I suggest, I fix, I drink coffee.
Sometimes this process turns into an article. Sometimes a thought that wouldn’t survive LinkedIn. I keep both here rather than let an algorithm decide what’s worth keeping. For the polished version, see my professional introduction.
Thank you for reading.
- david
five doors same place.
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