Paul Holland is Now Teaching Rapid Software Testing
For the first time in a long time, I am prepared to endorse a new trainer of the Rapid Software Testing class: Paul Holland.
Paul has been a tester and test manager at Alcatel/Lucent for something like 17 years. In recent years he has been using and teaching Rapid Software Testing methodology within Alcatel. His practical experience is fabulous.
But that’s not why I’m happy to have him working for me. There are a lot of experienced people in the world.
He is a pilot. He flew Sea King helicopters for the Canadian Navy. The thing about pilot training is that it is similar to good tester training. You have to practice, practice, practice. I’m a pilot, too. Most of my family flies airplanes. My approach to training is much influenced by that experience.
Still, that’s not really why I’m excited.
I’m excited because Paul enjoys an excellent reputation within the Context-Driven community as a facilitator of peer conferences. He’s irreverent. He’s an innovator. That’s important, because anyone who teaches my class must make it his own class, too. Paul has the right temperament for that.
Paul’s teaching style is a bit less aggressive than mine (as is Michael Bolton’s), if you like that sort of thing. He will teach through Satisfice, Inc., so if you want him to do a class at your site, contact me.
April 22nd, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Congratulations, Paul (and James)!
Lots of success!
April 22nd, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Congratulations!
Will be very interesting to see what Paul brings to the RST table
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:10 am
Congratulations also to Paul!
April 24th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Congratulations to Paul, James, Michael and most of all – all testers who now have better chance of attending the best course for testing there is.
I strive to become just as good at testing (and teaching testing) so that I would one day teach RST.
April 27th, 2012 at 1:34 am
Good news, best of luck. Perhaps ISTQB, TMap and so on should now be re-named ‘Vapid Software Testing’ as a contrast to Rapid Software Testing.
April 30th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Good news! I’m now organizing the 1st ChinaTest conference, which will be held in Shanghai on Aug. 5th -8th. I hope RST can be one of our tutorials. But I realize James are busy in Aug. Michael also told me he won’t have time to attend our conference. So will Paul have time and be willing to be a speaker at ChinaTest2012? Looking forward to your reply.
[James' Reply: Contact me by email.]
May 1st, 2012 at 9:10 am
Congratulations, Paul.
May 1st, 2012 at 8:19 pm
I have heard about your course from so many people. They all say its great. And congrats to you and Paul on taking it up a notch. I’m wondering if you have a public schedule? I see you have a class on July 24-28 2012, but I’d like to plan a little further out.
[James' Reply: Yes, my schedule is public. See it at satisfice.com.]
June 6th, 2012 at 6:39 am
Congrats Paul, So looking for good testing stuffs from you.
August 25th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
My comment is a bit overdue but that’s excellent news. Paul is fantastic. I have two strong impressions of seeing Paul in action:
First, Paul is – by a large margin – the most impressive and effective discussion facilitator I’ve ever seen anywhere. Hands down. No contest. He is exceptionally gifted at moving group discussions ahead in a positive direction.
Second, Paul’s approach to managing testing missions on his testing team at Alcatel (and the manner in which he explained his management approach) will stick with me for a long time as one of those relatively rare “Aha!” moments that you clearly realize all of a sudden that (i) there’s a much better approach than the one you’re pursuing, and (ii) we should start applying that approach as soon as possible. Michael Bolton summarized Paul’s approach in this Sticky Minds article: http://test.techwell.com/articles/membersub/sticky-situation
Paul’s approach was (a) extremely flexible, (b) extremely practical, and (c) extremely clear to any stakeholders who wanted a 60-second status update. Yes, I realize I’m using “extremely” a lot here. It’s not hyperbole; it’s an accurate use of the word. Since hearing Paul describe his approach, we’ve adopted many aspects of it in the testing we do at my company. We use Trello (which we love) as opposed to Post-it Notes (which would probably be fine to use too if we weren’t distributed).
Justin Hunter
August 30th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
I came back to read this blog after a long time and it’s worth it. I appreciate the effort which has been keeping you all alive in Testing world and most important, you are doing what you want to do.
Currently i am in Hong Kong and we do have small group who belive in what we are doing is an important task , as a Tester Group. We want to improve and i am keen to know how to organize the training in Hong Kong and what will be the structure/Schedule/Cost etc.
Please advice.
SKP
[James' Reply: Contact me at james@satisfice.com]
September 21st, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Hi Paul,
My heartly congratulations to you, I am very happy to here this. Keep going on